Bargain vs Discount - What's the difference?
bargain | discount |
An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.
*(rfdate) (w, Wharton's Law Lexicon)
*:A contract is a bargain that is legally binding.
An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.
*(rfdate), (William Shakespeare)
*:And whon your honors mean to solemnize The bargain of your faith.
An item (usually brand new) purchased for significantly less than the usual, or recommended, price; also (when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase.
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*:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
The thing stipulated or purchased.
*(rfdate) (William Shakespeare)
*:She was too fond of her most filthy bargain .
(Webster 1913)
To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; to negotiate; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow.
To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.
To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of.
To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
* Walsh
To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
* Sir William Hamilton
:They discounted his comments.
To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
A reduction in price.
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.
Of goods, available at reduced prices; discounted.
Of a store, specializing in goods at reduced prices.
As nouns the difference between bargain and discount
is that bargain is an agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration while discount is a reduction in price.As verbs the difference between bargain and discount
is that bargain is to make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; to negotiate; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow while discount is to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of.As an adjective discount is
of goods, available at reduced prices; discounted.bargain
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* contract, engagement, purchase, stipulation * (an advantageous purchase) stealAntonyms
* rip-offDerived terms
* bargain basement * Faustian bargain * into the bargain * prebargainingVerb
- So worthless peasants bargain for their wives. -- Shakespeare.
- united we bargain, divided we beg
Derived terms
* bargain agent * bargain away * bargain dateSee also
* (l)Anagrams
* ----discount
Verb
(en verb)- Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
- Discount only unexceptionable paper.
- Of the three opinions, (I discount Brown's), under this head, one supposes that the law of Causality is a positive affirmation, and a primary fact of thought, incapable of all further analysis.
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (reduction in price) rebate, reductionAntonyms
* surchargeDerived terms
* quantity discount * rediscount * seasonal discountDescendants
* German:Adjective
(-)- This store specializes in discount wares.
- If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.