Sale vs. Discount

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  • Sale (noun)

    A hall.

  • Sale (noun)

    An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.

    “He celebrated after the sale of company.”

  • Sale (noun)

    The sale of goods at reduced prices.

    “They are having a clearance sale: 50% off.”

  • Sale (noun)

    The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.

  • Discount (verb)

    To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.

    “Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.”

  • Discount (verb)

    To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest

    “the banks discount notes and bills of exchange”

  • Discount (verb)

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

  • Discount (verb)

    To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.

    “They discounted his comments.”

  • Discount (verb)

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

  • Discount (noun)

    A reduction in price.

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

  • Discount (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.

  • Discount (noun)

    The rate of interest charged in discounting.

  • Discount (adjective)

    Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.

    “If you’re looking for cheap clothes, there’s a discount clothier around the corner.”

Wiktionary
  • Sale (noun)

    the exchange of a commodity for money; the action of selling something

    “the sale has fallen through”

    “we withdrew it from sale”

  • Sale (noun)

    a quantity or amount sold

    “price cuts failed to boost sales”

  • Sale (noun)

    the activity or business of selling products

    “director of sales and marketing”

  • Sale (noun)

    a period during which a shop or dealer sells goods at reduced prices

    “the January sales got under way this week”

  • Sale (noun)

    a public or charitable event at which goods are sold or auctioned

    “a bric-a-brac sale will be held at St Cuthbert’s Church Centre”

Oxford Dictionary

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