Premium vs Extra - What's the difference?
premium | extra |
Superior in quality; higher in price or value.
A prize or award.
Something offered at a reduced price as an inducement to buy something else.
A bonus paid in addition to normal payments.
The amount to be paid for an insurance policy.
An unusually high value.
(finance) The amount by which a security's value exceeds its face value.
Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.
(dated) Extraordinarily good; superior.
(informal) To an extraordinary degree.
(cricket) A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball; in Australia referred to as a sundry.
An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle.
A supernumerary or walk-on in a film or play.
As nouns the difference between premium and extra
is that premium is bonus (extra amount of money given as a premium) while extra is (cricket) a run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball; in australia referred to as a sundry.As an adjective extra is
beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.As an adverb extra is
(informal) to an extraordinary degree.premium
English
(wikipedia premium)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(-)Noun
(en-noun)Usage notes
* (term) is much less common than (premiums), accounting for less than 1% of total usage in US (COCA) and 4% in UK (BNC).Antonyms
* (finance) discountDerived terms
(Terms derived from the adjective or noun "premium") * at a premium * buyer's premium * premium bond * premium outletextra
English
Adjective
(-)- extra''' work; '''extra pay
Derived terms
* extranessAdverb
(-)- That day he ran to school extra fast.
Noun
(en noun)- extra''', '''extra , read all about it!
