英文名称：Discount House 中文名称：贴现行／贴现公司
为各种货币市场工具如承兑商承兑的长期汇票、国债和商业票据等提供贴现服务的金融机构。
Primarily operating in the United Kingdom, a firm that buys, sells, discounts and/or negotiates bills of exchange or promissory notes. This is generally performed on a large scale with transactions that also include government bonds and treasury bills. 
Also called a bill broker. 

In the United States, a discount house can refer to a large retail store that is able to offer consumer durables at discounted prices because of its ability to purchase in bulk and employ expense-controlling practices.

A discount house is a money dealer that participates in the buying and discounting of bills of exchange and other financial products such as money markets, certain government bonds and banker’s acceptances.