Fee vs Discount - What's the difference?
fee | discount |
(feudal law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.
(legal) An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.
(legal) An estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail).
(obsolete) Property; owndom; estate.
* Wordsworth, On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
* 1844 , , by (James Russell Lowell)
* 1915 , :
(obsolete) Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.
(obsolete) A prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.10:
A monetary payment charged for professional services.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
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, title= To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
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* Herman Melville, Omoo
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.
As nouns the difference between fee and discount
is that fee is while discount is discount (reduction in price).fee
English
Noun
(en noun)- Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee .
- What doth the poor man's son inherit? / Stout muscles and a sinewy heart, / A hardy frame, a hardier spirit; / King of two hands, he does his part / In every useful toil and art; / A heritage, it seems to me, / A king might wish to hold in fee .
- Cronshaw had told him that the facts of life mattered nothing to him who by the power of fancy held in fee the twin realms of space and time.
- For though sweet love to conquer glorious bee, / Yet is the paine thereof much greater than the fee .
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
Verb
- The patient . . . fees the doctor.
- There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant feed .
- We departed the grounds without seeing Marbonna; and previous to vaulting over the picket, feed our pretty guide, after a fashion of our own.
See also
* (wikipedia)Statistics
* ----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.
