Preferential vs Discount - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between preferential and discount

is that preferential is of or relating to the showing or giving of preference while discount is of goods, available at reduced prices; discounted.

As a verb discount is

to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of.

As a noun discount is

a reduction in price.

preferential

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or relating to the showing or giving of preference.

Club members received preferential seating.

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

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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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