Discount vs. Deduct — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Discount and Deduct
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Discount
To sell or offer for sale at a reduced price
Discounting all merchandise.
Deduct
Subtract or take away (an amount or part) from a total
Tax has been deducted from the payments
Discount
To reduce in quantity or value
Discount a price.
Deduct
To take away (a quantity) from another; subtract.
Discount
To deduct or subtract from a cost or price
Discounted 30 dollars off the price of the coat.
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Deduct
To derive by deduction; deduce.
Discount
To determine the present value of (a future payment or series of payments).
Deduct
To take away a desirable part
Poor plumbing deducts from the value of the house.
Discount
To price (a bond or other debt security) at a reduction to its face value, especially in place of a coupon.
Deduct
To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller or less by some amount.
I will deduct the cost of the can of peas from the money I owe you.
The player was deducted a point for violent conduct.
Discount
To disregard or doubt (something) as being exaggerated or untrustworthy
Discount a rumor.
Deduct
To lead forth or out.
A people deducted out of the city of Philippos.
Discount
To underestimate the significance or effectiveness of; minimize
I made sure in my report not to discount your accomplishments.
Deduct
To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; - often with from or out of.
Deduct what is but vanity, or dress.
Two and a half per cent should be deducted out of the pay of the foreign troops.
We deduct from the computation of our years that part of our time which is spent in . . . infancy.
Discount
To anticipate and make allowance for; reckon with in advance.
Deduct
To reduce; to diminish.
Discount
A reduction from the full or standard amount of a price or value.
Deduct
Make a subtraction
Discount
The amount by which the face value of a bond or other debt security exceeds its market price.
Deduct
Retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments;
My employer is withholding taxes
Discount
Offering products or services for sale at low or reduced prices
A discount retailer.
A discount airline.
Deduct
Reason by deduction; establish by deduction
Discount
Sold or offered for sale at a low or reduced price
Discount merchandise.
Discount
Reduced in quantity or value
Discount airfares.
Discount
Priced below face value, especially in place of a coupon
A discount bond.
Discount
To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.
Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
Discount
To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest
The banks discount notes and bills of exchange
Discount
To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
Discount
To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.
They discounted his comments.
They discounted his suggestion.
They discounted his idea.
Discount
To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount
Discount
To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.
Discount
A reduction in price.
This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too.
Discount
(finance) A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
Discount
The rate of interest charged in discounting.
Discount
(figurative) A lack or shortcoming.
Discount
The act of one who believes, or act as though they believe, that their own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.
Discount
Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.
If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.
Discount
To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
Discount
To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
Discount only unexceptionable paper.
Discount
To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
Discount
To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
Of the three opinions (I discount Brown's).
Discount
To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
Discount
A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted.
Discount
A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
Discount
The rate of interest charged in discounting.
Discount
The act of reducing the selling price of merchandise
Discount
Interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan
Discount
A refund of some fraction of the amount paid
Discount
An amount or percentage deducted
Discount
Bar from attention or consideration;
She dismissed his advances
Discount
Give a reduction in price on;
I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes
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