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Depreciation vs Discount - What's the difference?

depreciation | discount |

As nouns the difference between depreciation and discount

is that depreciation is the state of being depreciated while discount is a reduction in price.

As a verb 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.

depreciation

English

Noun

  • The state of being depreciated.
  • The decline in value of assets.
  • (accounting) The measurement of the decline in value of assets. Not to be confused with impairment, which is the measurement of the unplanned, extraordinary decline in value of assets.

    • See also

    * ("depreciation" on Wikipedia)

    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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