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commission | discount |

As nouns the difference between commission and discount

is that commission is a sending or mission (to do or accomplish something) while discount is a reduction in price.

As verbs the difference between commission and discount

is that commission is to send or officially charge someone or some group to do something 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.

commission

English

(wikipedia commission)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
    • It was James Bond's commission to defeat the bad guys.
  • An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
    • David received his commission after graduating from West Point.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let him see our commission .
  • The thing to be done as agent for another.
    • I have three commissions for the city.
  • A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
    • the European Commission; the Electoral Commission; the Federal Communications Commission
    The company's sexual harassment commission made sure that every employee completed the on-line course.
  • * Prescott
    • A commission was at once appointed to examine into the matter.
  • A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.
    • a reseller's commission
    The real-estate broker charged a four percent commission for their knowledge on bidding for commercial properties; for their intellectual perspective on making a formal offer and the strategy to obtain a mutually satisfying deal with the seller in favour of the buyer .
  • The act of committing (e.g. a crime).
    • the commission , preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism
  • * South
    • Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness.

    Synonyms

    * body of officials: committee, government body * fee charged: brokerage

    Derived terms

    * commissioner * European Commission * out of commission

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something.
    • James Bond was commissioned with recovering the secret documents.
  • * 2012 , August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal
    • Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Aghanistan, is not the first solider to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.
  • To place an order for (often piece of art); as, commission a portrait.
    • He commissioned a replica of the Mona Lisa for his living room, but the painter gave up after six months.
  • To put into active service; as, commission a ship.
    • The aircraft carrier was commissioned in 1944, during WWII.

    discount

    English

    (wikipedia discount) (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of.
    • 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.
  • * Walsh
    • Discount only unexceptionable paper.
  • 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
    • 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.
  • :They discounted his comments.
  • To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (reduction in price) rebate, reduction

    Antonyms

    * surcharge

    Derived terms

    * quantity discount * rediscount * seasonal discount

    Descendants

    * German:

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of goods, available at reduced prices; discounted.
    • This store specializes in discount wares.
  • Of a store, specializing in goods at reduced prices.
    • If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.

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