minimize loss or risk

To sell or offer for sale at a reduced price, To underestimate the significance or effectiveness of; minimize, To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount, verb_ To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event), To leave out of account; to take no notice of, noun_ A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money, The rate of interest charged in discounting

represent as less significant or important, make small or insignificant, transitive To represent, to oneself or others, as of no importance or minimal importance or effect; to belittle or disarage, To represent as having the least degree of importance, value, or size

comparative of the adverb `late', at some eventual time in the future, happening at a time subsequent to a reference time, adjective_ comparative form of late_ more late, Coming afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time), noun_ A brick or tile, interjection_ slang Dismissive term to minimize importance of an annoying persons, slang See you later; goodbye,