{
  "id": "discount.economic",
  "term": "discount",
  "sense": "economic",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "everyday",
  "domain": "commercial",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "price that is less per original price",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "price.economic",
      "per.ratio",
      "original.first"
    ],
    "interaction": "price is less per original price",
    "novel_properties": [
      "lower price",
      "percentage off",
      "value less than original"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, Black Friday saw Walmart sell 65-inch TVs originally priced at $499 for $399.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Steam's Summer Sale offered a 75% discount on the game Cyberpunk 2077, originally $60, for $15.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Costco marks down day-old rotisserie chickens from $9.99 to $4.99 at 8 PM daily.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "price.economic",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "discount is a kind of price adjustment"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "discount",
    "discounted",
    "discounting",
    "discounts"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-discount.economic"
}