a reduced price for goods given by a seller on the basis that the buyer buys a large quantity
Customers are offered a volume discount.
Examples of 'volume discount' in a sentence
volume discount
The largest estates will qualify for a volume discount, the details of which have not been made public.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Volume discounts and government, non-profit, and education licensing is also available.
Globe and Mail (2004)
New volume discounts lowered the big dealers' trading costs.
Globe and Mail (2003)
A new fees structure that rewards institutions with volume discounts will be introduced tomorrow.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
In turn, firms have been proposing volume discounts, blended rates, fixed fees, various forms of value billing - and more.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
It said its policy of rebates and volume discounts would continue unchanged, but that the company had agreed to a set of 'business practice provisions'.