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- Dictionarydeduct/dɪˈdʌkt/
verb
- 1. subtract or take away (an amount or part) from a total: "tax has been deducted from the payments"
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to take away an amount or part from a total: The company deducts $31.93 each week from my salary for health insurance. To deduct is also not to have to pay taxes on an amount that you have earned:
1. : to take away (an amount) from a total : subtract. 2. : deduce, infer. Synonyms. abate. knock off. subtract. take off. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of deduct in a Sentence. You can deduct up to $500 for money given to charity. after deducting taxes, what's left is your net pay for the week.
DEDUCTION definition: 1. the process of reaching a decision or answer by thinking about the known facts, or the decision…. Learn more.
Deduct definition: to take away, as from a sum or amount. See examples of DEDUCT used in a sentence.
to take away an amount or part from a total: The company deducts $31.93 each week from my salary for health insurance. To deduct is also not to have to pay taxes on an amount that you have earned:
To deduct is to remove or take away some amount. If your boss deducts money from your paycheck because you're always late to work, she subtracts it. When taxes are withheld from your salary, your employer deducts them to pay your contribution.
noun. the act or process of deducting or subtracting. something, esp a sum of money, that is or may be deducted. the process of reasoning typical of mathematics and logic, whose conclusions follow necessarily from their premises. an argument of this type. the conclusion of such an argument. logic.
Definition of deduct verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
verb. When you deduct an amount from a total, you subtract it from the total. The company deducted this payment from his compensation. [VERB noun + from] Up to 5% of marks in the exams will be deducted for spelling mistakes. [be VERB -ed] [ Also VERB noun] Synonyms: subtract, remove, take off, withdraw More Synonyms of deduct.
1. a. : an act of taking away. deduction of legitimate business expenses. b. : something that is or may be subtracted. deductions from his taxable income. 2. a. : the deriving of a conclusion by reasoning. based on intuition rather than deduction.
