discrepancy
noun/dɪˈskrepənsi/
/dɪˈskrepənsi/
[countable, uncountable] (plural discrepancies)
- a difference between two or more things that should be the same
- discrepancy (in something) wide discrepancies in prices quoted for the work
- discrepancy between A and B What are the reasons for the discrepancy between girls' and boys' performance in school?
Extra Examples- There were wide discrepancies in the evidence.
- How do you explain the apparent discrepancies between the money and the receipts?
- She failed to notice the discrepancy between the name on the cheque and the name on the driving licence.
- the glaring discrepancy between the crime and the punishment
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- glaring
- great
- …
- account for
- explain
- discover
- …
- exist
- arise
- occur
- …
- discrepancy between
- discrepancy in
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin discrepantia, from discrepare ‘be discordant’, from dis- ‘apart, away’ + crepare ‘to creak’.
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