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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UVic then deducted three minutes to determine that naloxone would have been administered about seven minutes after the phone call.
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Krista Stevens, Longreads, 17 May 2024
There’s no estate tax in South Carolina, and residents 65 and older can deduct $10,000 of income from most retirement plans for state income tax purposes.
—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 16 May 2024
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Krista Stevens, Longreads, 17 May 2024
There’s no estate tax in South Carolina, and residents 65 and older can deduct $10,000 of income from most retirement plans for state income tax purposes.
—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 16 May 2024
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“Deduct.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deduct. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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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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