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[di-SKREP-ahnt] 
1. discordant; at variance; disagreeing: "Open and patient communication held their relationship together for years, despite their discrepant priorities."
adverb form: discrepantly
Origin:
Approximately 1425; from Middle English, 'discrepaunt'; from Latin, 'discrepans,' 'discrepant-,' present participle of 'discrepare': to disagree, to sound differently ('dis-': apart, off + 'crepare': to rattle, to crack). In action:
"Then there is highly discrepant unemployment and uneven distribution of income and consequent poverty/ prosperity between the capitals and the outlying areas in, for example, Hungary and Slovakia. Many of the new members are lowering their taxes to attract investment which is being reflected in budget deficit. Estonia's current budget deficit is five times higher than the Argentinean deficit which provoked the financial crisis in 2001."
Kazi Anwarul Masud. "Point-Counterpoint: Socio-political consequences of the European expansion," The Daily Star (May 31, 2004).
"I continue to be amazed at the way in which so many liberals repeat the discredited mantra of the CIA to the effect that Saddam Hussein's regime was so 'secular' that it not only did not collaborate, but axiomatically could not have collaborated with Islamists. If you can imagine a Hitler-Stalin pact (which, admittedly, a lot of American leftists still cannot), you can probably imagine collusion between discrepant factions with common interests."
Christopher Hitchens. "Covering the 'Quagmire': Are war correspondents betting on failure in Iraq?" Slate.com (April 29, 2004).
"A month and a half ago, in our article 'How much grain has been left in Ukraine?', we already attempted to assess the stocks of wheat in the country and the situation on the market as a whole. Then discrepant tendencies started to act on the markets of wheat and flour, reflected in a certain nervousness and often opposite opinions of market operators as for further development of the situation. In that article we made a supposition that the excess of flour would not be growing any further, being gradually 'eaten out'. However, we've found a mare's nest: the production of flour continued to beat the recent years' records both in February and in March, and the stocks were increasing impetuously, showing quite unusual dynamics. Thus, at the current moment the situation has turned still more entangled: the stocks of wheat have naturally decreased since early March, the stocks of flour have increased and the prices for both have dropped - in a lesser degree for flour. The question 'What is going to be next?' is still answered by antipodal explanations."
"Will we have enough wheat?" AgriMarket.info (April 26, 2004).
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