as in to subtract
to take away (an amount or number) from a total
after deducting taxes, what's left is your net pay for the week
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Recent Examples of deduct
You are entitled to a refund of the security deposit or any balance left after deducting legitimate charges, according to Legal Aid of North Carolina.
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Kendrick Marshall, Charlotte Observer, 17 Oct. 2025
People receiving a state income tax refund have the amount of their delinquent parking citations deducted from their refund.
—Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Restaurant servers, drivers for ride-hailing services, barbers and other tipped workers making less than $150,000 a year could deduct up to $25,000 in tips from their federal income taxes starting this tax year and through 2028.
—Calmatters, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025
That means restaurant servers will not be able to deduct service charges that some restaurants automatically apply to diners’ checks.
—Levi Sumagaysay, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
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Kendrick Marshall, Charlotte Observer, 17 Oct. 2025
People receiving a state income tax refund have the amount of their delinquent parking citations deducted from their refund.
—Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Restaurant servers, drivers for ride-hailing services, barbers and other tipped workers making less than $150,000 a year could deduct up to $25,000 in tips from their federal income taxes starting this tax year and through 2028.
—Calmatters, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025
That means restaurant servers will not be able to deduct service charges that some restaurants automatically apply to diners’ checks.
—Levi Sumagaysay, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deduct
subtract
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Apple isn’t the first to subtract the plus sign from its streaming platform.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Oct. 2025
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But in an Akan language, the notion that an object could exist as a bare substrate, stripped of properties—say, the idea of a stone, with its weight, texture, and color subtracted—is basically unintelligible; the metaphysical split between a thing and its properties isn’t naturally expressible.—
Lula Konner,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Deduct.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deduct. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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