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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=finance">finance</a>, <b>discounting</b> is a mechanism in which a <a href="page.php?w=debtor">debtor</a> obtains the right to delay <a href="page.php?w=payment">payment</a>s to a <a href="page.php?w=creditor">creditor</a>, for a defined period of time, in exchange for a charge or <a href="page.php?w=fee">fee</a>.  Essentially, the party that owes money in the present purchases the right to delay the payment until some future date. This <a href="page.php?w=Financial_transaction">transaction</a> is based on the fact that</p><p>
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