Sale vs. Discount — What's the Difference?

The exchange of a commodity for money; the action of selling something

To sell or offer for sale at a reduced price

A period during which a shop or dealer sells goods at reduced prices

To reduce in quantity or value

The exchange of goods or services for an amount of money or its equivalent; the act of selling

To deduct or subtract from a cost or price

A selling of property to the highest bidder; an auction.

To determine the present value of (a future payment or series of payments).

An offer or arrangement in which goods are sold at a discount

To price (a bond or other debt security) at a reduction to its face value, especially in place of a coupon.

The business or activity of selling goods or services

To disregard or doubt (something) as being exaggerated or untrustworthy

The number of items sold or the amount of money received for a number of items sold

To underestimate the significance or effectiveness of; minimize

An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.

To anticipate and make allowance for; reckon with in advance.

Short for discount sale The sale of goods at reduced prices.

A reduction from the full or standard amount of a price or value.

The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.

The amount by which the face value of a bond or other debt security exceeds its market price.

(obsolete) A hall.

Offering products or services for sale at low or reduced prices

See 1st Sallow.

Sold or offered for sale at a low or reduced price

The act of selling; the transfer of property, or a contract to transfer the ownership of property, from one person to another for a valuable consideration, or for a price in money.

Reduced in quantity or value

Opportunity of selling; demand; market.

Priced below face value, especially in place of a coupon

Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction.

To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.

The general activity of selling;

To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest

A particular instance of selling;

To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).

The state of being purchasable; offered or exhibited for selling;

To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.

An occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices;

To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount

An agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer);

To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

A reduction in price.

(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.

The rate of interest charged in discounting.

(figurative) A lack or shortcoming.

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.

Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.

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.

To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.

To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).

To leave out of account; to take no notice of.

To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.

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.

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.

The act of reducing the selling price of merchandise

Interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan

A refund of some fraction of the amount paid

An amount or percentage deducted

Bar from attention or consideration;

Give a reduction in price on;