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discount rate

  1. discount ()
  2. the rate at which the Federal Reserve Banks discount or rediscount securities offered by member banks

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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