The difference between Discount and Reduction
When used as nouns, discount means a reduction in price, whereas reduction means the act, process, or result of reducing.
Discount is also verb with the meaning: to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.
Discount is also adjective with the meaning: specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.
check bellow for the other definitions of Discount and Reduction
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Discount as a verb:
To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.
Examples:
"Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills."
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Discount as a verb:
To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest
Examples:
"usex the banks discount notes and bills of exchange"
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Discount as a verb:
To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
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Discount as a verb:
To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.
Examples:
"They discounted his comments. "
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Discount as a verb:
To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount
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Discount as a noun:
A reduction in price.
Examples:
"This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too."
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Discount as a noun:
A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
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Discount as a noun:
The rate of interest charged in discounting.
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Discount as an adjective (of a, store):
Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.
Examples:
"If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner."
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Reduction as a noun:
The act, process, or result of reducing.
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Reduction as a noun:
The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
Examples:
"A 5% reduction in robberies"
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Reduction as a noun (chemistry):
A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.
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Reduction as a noun (cooking):
The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
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Reduction as a noun (mathematics):
The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
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Reduction as a noun (computability theory):
a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial reduction.
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Reduction as a noun (music):
An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
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Reduction as a noun (philosophy, phenomenology):
A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)
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Reduction as a noun (medicine):
A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.