Discount vs. Deduction
Discountverb
To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.
Discountverb
To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest
Discountverb
To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
Discountverb
To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.
Discountverb
To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount
Discountnoun
A reduction in price.
Discountnoun
A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
Discountnoun
The rate of interest charged in discounting.
Discountadjective
Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.
Discountverb
To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
Discountverb
To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
Discountverb
To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
Discountverb
To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
Discountverb
To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
Discountnoun
A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted.
Discountnoun
A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
Discountnoun
The rate of interest charged in discounting.
Discountnoun
the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise
Discountnoun
interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan
Discountnoun
a refund of some fraction of the amount paid
Discountnoun
an amount or percentage deducted
Discountverb
bar from attention or consideration;
Discountverb
give a reduction in price on;
Deductionnoun
That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed
Deductionnoun
A sum that can be removed from tax calculations; something that is written off
Deductionnoun
(logic) A process of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific, in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true.
Deductionnoun
A conclusion; that which is deduced, concluded or figured out
Deductionnoun
The ability or skill to deduce or figure out; the power of reason
Deductionnoun
Act or process of deducing or inferring.
Deductionnoun
Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend.
Deductionnoun
That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion.
Deductionnoun
That which is or may be deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent in compensation for services; deductions from income in calculating income taxes.
Deductionnoun
a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket
Deductionnoun
an amount or percentage deducted
Deductionnoun
something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied);
Deductionnoun
reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
Deductionnoun
the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole);
Deductionnoun
the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise
Deductionnoun
the action of deducting or subtracting something
Deductionnoun
an amount that is or may be deducted from something, especially from taxable income or tax to be paid
Deductionnoun
the inference of particular instances by reference to a general law or principle
