trade discount

noun

a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.

trade discount

a sum or percentage deducted from the list price of a commodity allowed by a manufacturer, distributor, or wholesaler to a retailer or by one enterprise to another in the same trade

First recorded in 1900–05

He got that car—allowing for his trade discount—for a hundred and thirty-five pounds—cape-cart hood and all.

Trade Discount—The discount allowed by a manufacturer to a jobber or by a jobber to a retailer.

Before a calculation is finished we must add the selling expenses to the cost, also take account of the trade discount.

Thus, the average trade discount now prevailing on net books and net fiction is 30 per cent in small quantities.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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