discounting
割引する
解説 Definition
discounting は discount（割引する）の現在分詞・動名詞です。商品や料金の価格を下げていることを表し、商取引や販売の場面でよく使われます。
The present participle or gerund of discount, meaning the act or process of reducing the usual price of a product, service, or ticket, especially to encourage sales or attract more customers.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 discount に -ing をそのまま付けた形で、語尾を重ねず discounting と書きます。dis-「外す」と count「数える」の歴史的な結び付きを手掛かりに、代金の計算から一部を差し引く場面を想像しましょう。discounting coats、tickets、old models のように、値下げする商品と組み合わせて覚えると実用的です。
Start with the base verb discount and add -ing without changing or doubling any letters: discounting. The word’s history suggests taking an amount out of a calculation, which matches the modern commercial idea of subtracting part of a price. Picture a store discounting winter coats or a theater discounting tickets to attract buyers. Useful combinations include discounting old models, discounting merchandise, and start discounting. In this entry, keep the price-related meaning separate from the other sense of discount, “to treat something as unimportant or unlikely.”
例文
The store is discounting winter coats this week.
その店は今週、冬用コートを割引しています。
They started discounting old models before the new ones arrived.
新しいモデルが入荷する前に、彼らは旧モデルの割引を始めました。
Discounting the tickets helped the theater fill more seats.
チケットを割引したことで、その劇場はより多くの席を埋められました。
discounting の類義語・関連語
discounting の語源・成り立ち Etymology
discounting は古フランス語 desconter、さらに中世ラテン語 discomputare にさかのぼり、dis-「外へ」+ computare「数える」から成ります。代金を勘定から差し引く感覚が「割引する」につながり、関連語に compute, count があります。
Discounting is the -ing form of discount. Discount entered English through French forms related to Old French desconter and ultimately Medieval Latin discomputare. These forms combine an element meaning “apart” or “away” with computare, “to calculate.” The central historical idea was to deduct an amount when settling an account. This developed naturally into the modern commercial sense of lowering a stated price. Compute and count are historically connected with the same broad calculating vocabulary.
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