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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:
the process of reaching a decision or answer by thinking about the known facts, or the decision that is reached: Through a process of deduction, the detectives discovered the identity of the killer. deduction from All we can do is make deductions from the available facts. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Concluding and deducing.
deduct. (dɪdʌkt ) Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense deducts , present participle deducting , past tense, past participle deducted. verb. When you deduct an amount from a total, you subtract it from the total.
The meaning of DEDUCT is to take away (an amount) from a total : subtract. How to use deduct in a sentence.
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.
Definition of deduct verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
(dɪdʌkʃən ) Word forms: plural deductions. 1. countable noun. A deduction is a conclusion that you have reached about something because of other things that you know to be true. It was a pretty astute deduction. My mother had made her own shrewd deductions about what was going on. [ + about]
noun. /dɪˈdʌkʃn/ [uncountable, countable] the process of using information you have in order to understand a particular situation or to find the answer to a problem. He arrived at the solution by a simple process of deduction. If my deductions are correct, I can tell you who the killer was.
