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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
Recent Examples of deduct from the Web
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Under the 5-4 ruling in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), public-sector employees may now opt out of having union dues payments deducted from their paychecks, the Washington Examiner reported.
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Critics of the practice of deducting fees from nonmembers say public sector unions by definition lobby government, which is a political act, and workers who disagree with the union should not be forced to contribute.
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For example, people who previously deducted unreimbursed business expenses as an itemized deduction no longer can.
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The panel ordered union officials to reimburse some of the former members who had dues deducted after they had made their resignation requests.
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And all graduates, regardless of majors, brought in more money per month than people with high school diplomas and no college, even when deducting monthly loan payments, the report found.
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These cards cannot expire for at least five years and cannot have a service fee deducted unless it has not been used in 12 months.
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The Federal Trade Commission said in a complaint that LendingClub deducted hidden fees from loan proceeds issued to borrowers.
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Diego Quesada, an 18-year-old senior at Ronald Reagan High School in San Antonio, Texas, said that teachers are treating the walkout as an unexcused absence and will deduct points for tests or other assignments for some students who aren’t present.
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Origin and Etymology of deduct
Latin deductus, past participle of deducere
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First Known Use: 15th century
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Near Antonyms
enhance, heighten, intensify, magnify;
aggrandize, amplify, augment, beef (up), boost, compound, enlarge, escalate, expand, increase, multiply;
Related Words
decrease, diminish, discount, downsize, dwindle, knock down, lessen, lower, reduce;
abbreviate, abridge, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, dock, pare, prune, retrench, shorten, slash, trim, truncate, whittle;
DEDUCT Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of deduct for English Language Learners
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: to take away (something, especially an amount of money) from a total
DEDUCT Defined for Kids
Law Dictionary
deduct
transitive verb
de·duct
legal Definition of deduct
: to take away (an amount) from a total;
specifically
: to take as a deduction
- must be capitalized…rather than immediately deducted
- —D. Q. Posin
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