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

  1. 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."

  2. 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"

  3. Discount as a verb:

    To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).

  4. Discount as a verb:

    To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.

    Examples:

    "They discounted his comments. "

  5. Discount as a verb:

    To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount

  1. Discount as a noun:

    A reduction in price.

    Examples:

    "This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too."

  2. 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.

  3. Discount as a noun:

    The rate of interest charged in discounting.

  1. 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."

  1. Reduction as a noun:

    The act, process, or result of reducing.

  2. Reduction as a noun:

    The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.

    Examples:

    "A 5% reduction in robberies"

  3. 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.

  4. Reduction as a noun (cooking):

    The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.

  5. Reduction as a noun (mathematics):

    The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.

  6. Reduction as a noun (computability theory):

    a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial reduction.

  7. Reduction as a noun (music):

    An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.

  8. Reduction as a noun (philosophy, phenomenology):

    A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)

  9. Reduction as a noun (medicine):

    A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.