discount
Defined in 2 places across 2 titles of the United States Code.
“Discount” means, with respect to a State agency that provides program foods to participants without the use of retail grocery stores (such as a State that provides for the home delivery or direct distribution of supplemental food), the amount of the price reduction or other price concession provided to any State agency by the manufacturer or other supplier of the particular food product as the result of the purchase of program food by each such State agency, or its representative, from the supplier.
Source
- 1994–present42 U.S.C. § 1786The Public Health and Welfare · Special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children · as used in this section
The term “discount”—
(A) means a reduction made from the price that customers are informed is the regular price; and
(B) does not include any means of increasing the price that customers are informed is the regular price.
Source
- 2010–present15 U.S.C. § 1693o-2Commerce and Trade · Reasonable fees and rules for payment card transactions · for purposes of this section