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
Beginning with 2025 tax filings, eligible workers will be able to deduct up to $25,000 in tips from their taxable income under the No Tax on Tips provision of the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).
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Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
The county already deducts 2% from eligible contracts to fund its procurement operations.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
For its entry-level healthcare package, Amazon employees will see $5 per week deducted from their pay; the company also said that, for standard visits, employees will pay a $5 copay.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 18 Sep. 2025
Eligible workers would be able deduct up to $25,000 in tips per return, according to tax experts.
—Susan Tompor, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
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Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
The county already deducts 2% from eligible contracts to fund its procurement operations.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
For its entry-level healthcare package, Amazon employees will see $5 per week deducted from their pay; the company also said that, for standard visits, employees will pay a $5 copay.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 18 Sep. 2025
Eligible workers would be able deduct up to $25,000 in tips per return, according to tax experts.
—Susan Tompor, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deduct
subtract
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Typically, the report is released on the first Friday of the month and includes information about how many jobs were added or subtracted from each industry.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
3 Oct. 2025
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The leap from knots to links is a relatively small one, but mathematicians can extend the ideas of knot theory to study mind-bending concepts such as higher-dimensional knots, surfaces with knotted edges and difficult-to-imagine objects obtained by subtracting a knot from three-dimensional space.—
Emma R. Hasson,
Scientific American,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Deduct.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deduct. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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