| 单词 | discount house |
| 释义 | discount house noun[C] ukusBANKING,FINANCE in the UK until the 1990s, atypeofbankthatboughtandsoldagreementstopaydebt, such asbillsofexchange, at areducedprice: Theoriginaldiscountinginstitution, abankordiscounthouse, forexample, might wellfinditselfshortofliquiditybefore thebillmatures. COMMERCEUS discount store Examplesofdiscount housediscount house I recently bought my wife a washing machine and got 12½ per cent. off its price in adiscounthouse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not true that adiscounthousecan apply only to the richer section of the community. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 That is a very big liability that thediscounthousetakes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Take the case of a company which is rather different from, say, adiscounthouse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Thediscounthouseis unable to cut the price and take advantage from the higher turnover which would follow. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I then had the terribly hard task of getting them out again, so intrigued were they with thediscounthouseand the facilities which it provided. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Different types of banks (clearing banks, accepting houses, discount houses and building societies) were specialized in different segments of the banking business. From theCambridge English Corpus Retail innovations, like discount houses, are discouraged in favour of the orthodox old-fashioned store. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Discount houses are an important element in financial liquidity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The special accounting problems of the discount houses are referred to in paragraph 22 of the report. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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