ibps-so 2018 · Question 313 of 356

Which one of the following is most nearly the same in meaning as the word discount, as it has been used in the passage?

1. AReduce
2. BAdvertise
3. CPostpone
4. DReconsider
5. EDisregard Directions (Q61–Q65) : The comparisons that follow are of the kind that the risk, audit and treasury desks of a bank set down when they rank accounts, branches, counters or holdings against one another upon a single scale. In each of the questions below there are given certain statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You are to take the statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts, and then to decide which of the two conclusions, if either, is true beyond doubt upon the statements given.Correct