Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To take away (a quantity) from another; subtract.
- intransitive verb To derive by deduction; deduce.
- intransitive verb To take away a desirable part.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To lead forth or away; deduce; conduct.
- To trace out; set forth.
- To bring down; reduce.
- To take away, separate, or remove in numbering, estimating, or calculating; subtract, as a counterbalancing item or particular: as, to
deduct losses from the total receipts; from the amount of profits deduct the freight-charges. - Synonyms Deduct, Subtract. These words cannot properly be used interchangeably. Deduct is to lead away, set aside, in a general or distributive sense; subtract, to draw off, remove, in a literal or collective sense. In settling a mercantile account, certain items, as charges, losses, etc., are deducted by being added together and their total subtracted from the grand total of the transaction. From a parcel of goods of known value or number articles are subtracted or literally taken away as required; the value or number of the remainder at any time may be ascertained by deducting the value or number of those taken from the original package; and this again is effected by subtracting the figures representing the smaller amount from those representing the larger.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To lead forth or out.
- transitive verb To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with
from orout of . - transitive verb obsolete To reduce; to diminish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a subtraction
- verb retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments
- verb reason by deduction; establish by deduction
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Clicking to download again will transfer songs to your Ubuntu One personal cloud again and will deduct from the downloads remaining.
Archive 2010-02-01 2010
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If you must make these comparisons, please include ALL comparable expenses on the private education side and deduct from the public education side all of the expenses related to students that the private schools would either not accept or not retain.
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The longer you own, the more you can deduct from the tax.
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We ran into a friend having hot and sour soup and then walked home, having clocked about three miles, but we ate an extra 150 calories so that meant we'd walked off only 150 more calories to deduct from the rest of our day's eating.
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Consequently, if this isn't covered by the company, it's yet another expense to deduct from the salary offer.
Archive 2005-09-01 2005
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Consequently, if this isn't covered by the company, it's yet another expense to deduct from the salary offer.
Self reliant 2005
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Again, this is an expense PJs should deduct from the salary offer.
Archive 2005-09-01 2005
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Again, this is an expense PJs should deduct from the salary offer.
Self reliant 2005
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The labels deduct this cost of doing business from artist royalties.
I'M BLACK: Blacklisted? Nathaniel Livingston 2005
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The labels deduct this cost of doing business from artist royalties.
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