Sales vs Discount - What's the difference?
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As a verb sales is . As a noun discount is discount ( reduction in price).
sales English
Noun
( en-plural noun)
The activities involved in selling goods or services.
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The amount or value of goods and services sold.
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Usage notes
* Often used attributively.
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discount 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
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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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