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Discard vs Setaside - What's the difference?

discard | setaside |

As nouns the difference between discard and setaside

is that discard is anything discarded while setaside is an amount of money or resources put aside for a specific purpose.

As a verb discard

is to throw away, to reject.

discard

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to throw away, to reject.
  • * I. Taylor
    • A man discards the follies of boyhood.
  • (card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.
  • To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • They blame the favourites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should resolve to discard them.

    Synonyms

    * cast away * dismiss * dispose * eliminate * get rid of * throw away * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything discarded.
  • A discarded playing card in a card game.

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    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms

    setaside

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An amount of money or resources put aside for a specific purpose.
  • * 1992 , Paula Duggan, Making sense of federal dollars (page 27)
    • Setasides are stated either in dollar amounts or as a percentage of total funds; in either case, setasides are taken "off the top" of the program's funds.

    See also

    * earmark