deducted; deducting; deducts
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
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Their data for the average transaction prices — that's what a consumer pays after deducting all incentives and trade-in values — for new-vehicles show that those prices are not being driven down.
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Jamie L. Lareau, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
All gambling income must be reported on Form 1040, with the ability to deduct gambling losses only up to the amount of winnings.
—Associate News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
Take one 39-year-old single woman, add in eight unsuccessful intrauterine insemination (IUI) treatments, deduct $12,000 in savings, insert two recommendations for in vitro fertilization (IVF), factor in an about 16% chance for success, and where does that land you?
—Angela Hatem, Parents, 9 Dec. 2025
Employees are also supposed to be given different options to pay those fees, instead of them just being deducted from their paychecks.
—Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 8 Dec. 2025
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Jamie L. Lareau, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
All gambling income must be reported on Form 1040, with the ability to deduct gambling losses only up to the amount of winnings.
—Associate News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
Take one 39-year-old single woman, add in eight unsuccessful intrauterine insemination (IUI) treatments, deduct $12,000 in savings, insert two recommendations for in vitro fertilization (IVF), factor in an about 16% chance for success, and where does that land you?
—Angela Hatem, Parents, 9 Dec. 2025
Employees are also supposed to be given different options to pay those fees, instead of them just being deducted from their paychecks.
—Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 8 Dec. 2025
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“Deduct.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deduct. Accessed 17 Dec. 2025.
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deduct
transitive verb
de·duct
: to take away (an amount) from a total
specifically
: to take as a deduction
must be capitalized…rather than immediately deducted —D. Q. Posin
compare amortize
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