Discount vs Refuse - What's the difference?
discount | refuse |
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.
(UK) Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
To decline (a request or demand).
* Bible, Isa. i. 20
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To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
(military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy.
(obsolete) To disown.
* Shakespeare
As a noun discount
is discount (reduction in price).As a verb refuse is
.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 ----refuse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(-)Synonyms
* discards * garbage (US ) * rubbish (UK ) * trash (US ) * See alsoEtymology 2
From (etyl) refuser, from .Verb
(refus)- My request for a pay rise was refused .
- I refuse to listen to this nonsense any more.
- If ye refuse ye shall be devoured with the sword.
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- I asked the star if I could have her autograph, but she refused .
- to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks
- Refuse thy name.