わりびく【割り引く】
- I
- 1〔値段を安くする〕discount; reduce
- 割り引いた値段で売る
- sell at a discount [reduced price]
- 定価を10パーセント割り引く
- reduce the price by ten percent
- 大量に［１ダース］お買いいただけば割り引きます
- We make a reduction if you buy 「in quantity [a dozen].
- 2〔手形を〕discount
- 手形を銀行で割り引いてもらった
- I got [had] the bill discounted at the bank.
- II〔内輪に考える〕
- この話はどうも割り引いて考える必要がありそうだ
- I'm afraid we can't accept this story at face value.
- 友人たちは彼の話を割り引いて聞いた
- His friends took his story with a grain [pinch] of salt.／His friends discounted a part of what he said.
