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bill-discounter

bill-discounter is the alternative spelling of bill discounter.

Meaning of bill discounter

Noun

bill discounter (plural bill discounters)

  1. (archaic) A moneylender.
    • Nor did he trouble his borrowers with abstract calculations of figures, or references to ready-reckoners; his simple rule of interest being all comprised in the one golden sentence, ‘two-pence for every half-penny,’ which greatly simplified the accounts, and which, as a familiar precept, more...1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC

Forms of bill-discounter

pluralbill-discounters

Questions about bill-discounter

What is bill-discounter the alternative spelling of?
Bill-discounter is the alternative spelling of bill discounter.

Words near bill-discounter in the dictionary

  1. Bill Williams River
  2. bill-beetle
  3. bill-beetles
  4. bill-bird
  5. bill-birds
  6. bill-discounter
  7. bill-discounters
  8. bill-hook
  9. bill-hooks
  10. billa vera
  11. billability

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