Discount vs Offer - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between discount and offer

is that discount is to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of while offer is to present (something) to God as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.

As nouns the difference between discount and offer

is that discount is a reduction in price while offer is a proposal that has been made.

As an adjective discount

is of goods, available at reduced prices; discounted.

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

* German:

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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offer

English

(wikipedia offer)

Alternative forms

* offre (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) offer, from (etyl) . See verb below.

Noun

(en noun)

A proposal that has been made.

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Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.

(label) An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms sufficiently definite to create an enforceable contract if the other party accepts the invitation.

Derived terms

* make an offer

Etymology 2

From (etyl) offren, offrien, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To present (something) to God as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.

*Bible, (w) xxix. 36

*:Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement.

(lb) To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.

*2009 , Roger Williams, Triumph Tr2, 3, 3a, 4 & 4a

*:The next stage is to remove and replace the top part of the right side lip, and offer the lid to the car to ensure all the shapes and gaps are okay.

(lb) To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).

(lb) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.

(lb) To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.

*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

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(lb) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.

(lb) To happen, to present itself.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:The occasion offers , and the youth complies.

*1749 , (John Cleland), (w) , Penguin 1985, p.64:

*:The opportunity, however, did not offer till next morning, for Phoebe did not come to bed till long after I was gone to sleep.

(lb) To make an attempt; used with at .

*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

*:I will not offer at that I cannot master.

*(w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)

*:He would be offering at the shepherd's voice.

*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

*:without offering at any other remedy

(lb) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten.

Usage notes

* This is a catenative verb that takes the to -infinitive. See

Etymology 3

Noun

(en noun)

(used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off

* {{quote-book

, year=2003 , author=James-Jason Gantt , title=Losing Summer , chapter= citation , isbn=t0595297498 9780595297498 , page=146 , passage=Once you finally discover yourself a dismember-er, a de-limber, a fucking head-cutter-offer , the most simple of tasks — enjoying a long walk outside, seeing a movie, conversing with a stranger in the library — all become prized and over-inflated moments of elation.}}

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