Discount vs Kickback - What's the difference?
discount | kickback |
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.
(countable) A backward kick.
* 2010 , Christina T. Loguidice, ?Bill Loguidice, Wii Fitness For Dummies
(countable) A clandestine payment in return for a favor; especially an illegal one
(uncountable, firearms, machinery) Recoil; a sudden backward motion, usually in the direction of the operator.
(countable, machinery) An accident wherein an object being cut by a rotating blade or disk, such as a circular saw, is caught by the blade and thrown outward
(oil drilling) A dangerous buildup of gas pressure at the wellhead
(countable, bowling) The board separating one bowling lane from another at the pit end
(uncountable, bridge) In contract bridge, an ace asking convention initiated by the first step above four of the agreed trump suit.
(pinball) A feature that saves the ball from draining and propels it back into play.
* 1973 , Doug Anderson, Pinball Wizard'' (in ''Texas Monthly volume 1, number 7, August 1973, page 84)
As nouns the difference between discount and kickback
is that discount is discount (reduction in price) while kickback is (countable) a backward kick.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.
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* English heteronyms ----kickback
English
Noun
(en noun)- Kickbacks work the triceps muscle at the back of your arm. Exercising these muscles helps eliminate arm jiggle.
- We've come a long way since then. The progeny of that nail have been bent and twisted into what we all know and love as roll overs, kickbacks , and thumper-bumpers.