discount housen.
/ˈdɪskaʊnt haʊs/, U.S. /ˈdɪˌskaʊnt ˌhaʊs/ 1. Banking and Finance. A firm specializing in discounting bills of exchange, Treasury bills, etc. (see discount v. 3).
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > use of bills of exchange > one dealing in bills of exchange > discounter
discounter1707
shaver1813
note-shaver1816
discount house1832
discount broker1863
bill-discounter1866
1832 Times 10 Feb. 5/3 Almost all the banking business is now in the hands..of the great corporation and two or three discount houses.
1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. iii. ix. 415 The English discount houses collect all the bills which are drawn upon France.
1915 Rotarian Feb. 33/2 The discount houses and banks that held the bills found their funds locked up and disaster imminent.
1968 Times 9 Oct. 24/3 If the buyer needs his money before pay-day he can sell the paper in a market operated by a group of discount houses.
2000 Financial Times 8 Nov. 32/7 Old Mutual..brought an end to 175 years of history yesterday when it announced it would close Gerrard & King, the City of London's last free-standing discount house.
2. Chiefly North American. A shop at which goods are sold at below the normal retail price; a discount store.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > other types of shop
show shop1787
lock-up shop1795
cash-store1811
boat shop1813
slaughter shop1841
slaughterhouse1851
ticket-shop1851
charity shop1853
magic shop1853
company store1872
Army and Navy1878
five-and-ten1880
farthing-shop1889
funeral home1895
goodwill1916
shop-within-(a)-shop1916
cash and carry1917
Piggly Wiggly1917
poverty shop1948
discount house1949
anchor1960
box store1976
mom-and-pop1976
op shop1978
duty-free1980
pound shop1983
pop-up2000
1949 Consumer Rep. Aug. 343/2 Buying..nationally-advertised goods from discount houses at savings up to 20%.
1962 Listener 13 Dec. 994/2 The discount house, which sells all these things by self-service at very low prices, has grown phenomenally in recent years in the United States, but there are still only half a dozen or so in this country.
1987 A. S. Blinder Hard Heads, Soft Hearts v. 137 The nation is..shopping for cleaner air and water in a high-priced store when a discount house is just around the corner.
2004 Weekly World News 6 Dec. 54/1 I can't even afford a decent pair of panties at the discount house because I don't have a dollar to spare.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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