development vs discount

development

noun
  • The process of developing; growth, directed change. 

  • A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings. 

  • The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it. 

  • The expression of a function in the form of a series. 

  • The building of such a project. 

  • Something which has developed. 

  • The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research). 

  • The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated. 

  • The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form. 

  • The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells. 

discount

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

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

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

  • To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation. 

  • To leave out of account or regard as unimportant. 

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

noun
  • 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. 

  • The rate of interest charged in discounting. 

  • A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money. 

  • A lack or shortcoming. 

  • A reduction in price. 

adj
  • Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices. 

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