different between discount vs discredit

English

Etymology

Alteration of French descompte, décompte, from Old French disconter, desconter (“reckon off, account back, discount”), from Medieval Latin discomput? (“I deduct, discount”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + comput? (“I reckon, count”).

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • (in some senses) enPR: d?skount?, IPA^(key): /d?s?ka?nt/
  • (in some senses) enPR: d?s?kount, IPA^(key): /?d?ska?nt/
• Noun and adjective:
  • enPR: d?s?kount, IPA^(key): /?d?ska?nt/
• Rhymes: -a?nt

Verb

discount (third-person singular simple present discounts, present participle discounting, simple past and past participle discounted)

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

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

2. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest
   • 1692, William Walsh, Letter on the present state of the Currency of Great Britain

     Discount only unexceptionable paper.

3. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
4. To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.

   • 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.

5. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount
6. (psychology, transactional analysis) To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

Translations

Noun

discount (plural discounts)

1. A reduction in price.

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

2. (finance) 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. The rate of interest charged in discounting.
4. (psychology, transactional analysis) The act of one who believes, or act as though they believe, that their own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

Synonyms

• (reduction in price): rebate, reduction

Antonyms

• surcharge

Derived terms

• discountable
• quantity discount
• rediscount

Descendants

• German: Discount

Translations

Adjective

discount (not comparable)

1. (of a store) Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.

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

Further reading

• discount in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• discount in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• discount at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• conduits, ductions, noctuids

Italian

Etymology

From English discount.

Noun

discount m (invariable)

1. discount store

English

Etymology

dis- +? credit.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?d?t

Verb

discredit (third-person singular simple present discredits, present participle discrediting, simple past and past participle discredited)

1. (transitive) To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false or unreliable.

   The candidate tried to discredit his opponent.

   The evidence would tend to discredit such a theory.

Synonyms

• demean, disgrace, dishonour, disprove, invalidate, tell against

Derived terms

• discreditor

Translations

Noun

discredit (countable and uncountable, plural discredits)

1. (countable or uncountable) Discrediting or disbelieving.
2. (countable) A person or thing that causes harm to a reputation, as of a person, family, or institution.
3. (uncountable) The state of being discredited or disbelieved.

   Later accounts have brought the story into discredit.

4. (uncountable) A degree of dishonour or disesteem; ill repute; reproach.
   • 1815, Doctor Rogers, “A good Life the best Ornament of the Christian Profession” (sermon), in Family Lectures: or, a copious Collection of Sermons, F. C. and J. Rivington et al., page 351:

     It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on his profession.

Synonyms

• (degree of dishonour): demerit

Translations

References

• discredit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• discredit at OneLook Dictionary Search

Romanian

Etymology

From French discrédit.

Noun

discredit n (uncountable)

1. disrepute

Declension