| 词汇 | discount-house |
| 释义 | discount house noun[ C ] ukus BANKING, FINANCE in the UK until the 1990s, a type of bank that bought and sold agreements to pay debt, such as bills of exchange, at a reduced price: The original discounting institution, a bank or discount house, for example, might well find itself short of liquidity before the bill matures. COMMERCE US discount store Examples of discount housediscount house I recently bought my wife a washing machine and got 12½ per cent. off its price in a discounthouse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not true that a discounthouse can apply only to the richer section of the community. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is a very big liability that the discounthouse takes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Take the case of a company which is rather different from, say, a discounthouse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The discounthouse is 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 the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I then had the terribly hard task of getting them out again, so intrigued were they with the discounthouse and the facilities which it provided. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open 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. 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 the Open 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 the Open 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 the Open 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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