discrepancy
/dih-SKREP-un-see/nouna lack of agreement between facts or figures
“A small discrepancy in the ledger unraveled the fraud.”
- Synonyms
- inconsistency, mismatch, variance
- Antonyms
- agreement, consistency
- Memory hook
- dis + crepare (rattle): numbers that rattle against each other.
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