Discount vs Promotion - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between discount and promotion

is that discount is a reduction in price while promotion is an advancement in rank or position.

As a verb discount

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

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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Anagrams

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promotion

English

(wikipedia promotion)

Noun

(en noun)

An advancement in rank or position.

(marketing) Dissemination of positive information about a product, product line, brand, or company.

* 1995 , Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology (ISBN 079233471X), page 63:

By simple promotion and remotion, assisted by some flexure and extension, the distal spines of each would reach and scratch the substratum and, on remotion, sweep coarse particles posteriorly and dorsally.

* 2008 , John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology (ISBN 1402062427), volume 4, page 3326:

In other arthropods, promotion'-remotion of the leg is accomplished at other joints. For example, in spiders ' promotion -remotion occurs at the coxa-trochanter joint, insects utilize the body-coxa joint, and

Derived terms

* promotional