"discount rate" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: discount rates [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} discount rate (plural discount rates)
  1. (finance) An interest rate that a central bank charges depository institutions that borrow reserves from it. Categories (topical): Finance Synonyms (central bank interest rate): bank rate Translations (central bank rate): վերաֆինանսավորման տոկոսադրույք (verafinansavorman tokosadruykʻ) (Armenian), diskonttokorko (Finnish), oprocentowanie [neuter] (Polish), ста́вка рефинанси́рования (stávka refinansírovanija) [feminine] (Russian), ставка рефінансування (stavka refinansuvannja) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-discount_rate-en-noun-pYXFlYPx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Topics: business, finance Disambiguation of 'central bank interest rate': 58 42 Disambiguation of 'central bank rate': 64 36
  2. (finance) The interest rate used to discount future cashflows of a financial instrument; the annual interest rate used to decrease the amounts of future cashflows to yield their present value. Categories (topical): Finance Related terms: policy rate, key interest rate, net present value Translations (interest rate used to discount future cashflow): diskonttokorko (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-discount_rate-en-noun-4B2JiHgd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Topics: business, finance Disambiguation of 'interest rate used to discount future cashflow': 40 60

Inflected forms

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