discount house
Americannoun
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Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
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British. bill broker.
noun
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a financial organization engaged in discounting bills of exchange, etc on a large scale primarily by borrowing call money from commercial banks
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another name for discount store
Etymology
Origin of discount house
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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A St. Louis discount house, H. E. Krisman & Co., pushed its gross to $3,500,000 annually�and lost $200,000 doing it.
From Time Magazine Archive
A kind of Greek chorus of Harlem harpies gibber, clown, and rummage about as if they were witnessing the fall of a discount house of Atreus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mamie van Doren, with a kind of exactitude of casting, appears in a $39.98 dress covered with glittering beads for a Los Angeles discount house.
From Time Magazine Archive
German now is splattered with such terms as discount house, shopping center, ready to wear and cash and carry.
From Time Magazine Archive
And so, just when their little world—kindly, malicious, censorious, as the case might be—was expecting to hear of their engagement, Godfrey Pavely suddenly left Pewsbury to spend a year in a great Paris discount house.
From Love and hatred by Lowndes, Marie Belloc
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