Discount vs Decrease - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between discount and decrease

is that discount is discount (reduction in price) while decrease is an amount by which a quantity is decreased.

As a verb decrease is

of a quantity, to become smaller.

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

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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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decrease

English

Verb

(decreas)

Of a quantity, to become smaller.

To make (a quantity) smaller.

Synonyms

* (become smaller) drop, fall, go down, plummet (rapidly), plunge (rapidly), reduce, shrink, sink * (make smaller) abate, cut, decrement, lower, reduce

Antonyms

* (become larger) go up, grow, increase, rise, soar (rapidly), shoot up (rapidly) * (make larger) increase, increment, raise, up (informal)

Noun

(en noun)

An amount by which a quantity is decreased.

(knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See .

Synonyms

* (amount by which a quantity is decreased) cut, decrement, drop, fall, loss, lowering, reduction, shrinkage

Antonyms

* (amount by which a quantity is decreased) gain, increase, increment, raise , rise

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