discount rate

discount rate (countable and uncountable, plural discount rates)

1. (finance) An interest rate that a central bank charges depository institutions that borrow reserves from it.
2. (finance) The interest rate used to discount future cashflows of a financial instrument; the annual interest rate used to decrease the amounts of future cashflows to yield their present value.

• (central bank interest rate): bank rate

• policy rate, key interest rate
• net present value

• “discount rate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• decrustation, decurtations