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Reduced vs Discounted - What's the difference?

reduced | discounted |

As verbs the difference between reduced and discounted

is that reduced is (reduce) while discounted is (discount).

As an adjective reduced

is made smaller or less, resulting from reduction.

reduced

English

Verb

(head)
  • (reduce)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made smaller or less, resulting from reduction.
  • Reduced, lowered in price; on sale, at discount price
  • In cookery, of a sauce etc., made more concentrated.
    • chicken served with a reduced red wine sauce.

    discounted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (discount)

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    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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