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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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The student clearly arrived at the correct answer, and used addition to show his or her work, but points were still deducted.
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All figures are pretax; fees for agents, managers and lawyers are not deducted.
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According to the lawsuit, the Australian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society then began deducting from Beatbox's royalty payments to account for its legal fees in relation to the Eminem case.
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For many, uncovering the policies took some time since they were automatically enrolled in the insurance and the charges were automatically deducted from their accounts.
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His earnings totaled $101,444, but a $10,000 buy-in fee will be deducted from those winnings, tournament officials said.
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Comparing these is rather like deducting the cash in your bank account from your debts and comparing the net amount to your salary.
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RBS had already put $8.3 billion to cover U.S. mis-selling claims, from which the Wednesday settlement will be deducted.
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Media organizations, be informed that this dispute involved the team deducting 100 percent of the cost of meals provided on the road (or over $280,000 in the most recent year detailed).
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Origin and Etymology of deduct
Latin deductus, past participle of deducere
deduct Synonyms
Synonyms
abate, subtract, knock off, take offAntonyms
add, tack (on)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, whittleNear Antonyms
adjoin, annex, append; complement, supplement; enhance, heighten, intensify, magnify; aggrandize, amplify, augment, beef (up), boost, compound, enlarge, escalate, expand, increase, multiply, raiseDEDUCT Defined for English Language Learners
DEDUCT Defined for Kids
Definition of deduct for Students
deducted;
deducting
:to take away an amount of something :subtract
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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