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
Under the former law, such costs had to be amortized and deducted over 39.5 years.
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Paul Egan, Freep.com, 24 July 2025
George said that even after the company’s fees are deducted, IRIS drivers make a decent wage.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 17 July 2025
This means that companies can now deduct the full cost of their qualified R&D expenditures in the year those expenses are incurred, rather than amortizing them over several years—a requirement that had been in place since 2022 under the TCJA.
—Cindy McGhee, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
On top of that, they are also allowed to deduct their property taxes, assuming their income or sales taxes don’t put them over the cap.
—Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 11 July 2025
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Paul Egan, Freep.com, 24 July 2025
George said that even after the company’s fees are deducted, IRIS drivers make a decent wage.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 17 July 2025
This means that companies can now deduct the full cost of their qualified R&D expenditures in the year those expenses are incurred, rather than amortizing them over several years—a requirement that had been in place since 2022 under the TCJA.
—Cindy McGhee, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
On top of that, they are also allowed to deduct their property taxes, assuming their income or sales taxes don’t put them over the cap.
—Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 11 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for deduct
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deduct
subtract
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As a result, those foreign shipments added 5.2 percentage points to growth after subtracting a whopping 4.7 points in the January-March period.—
Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
30 July 2025
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Their absence could subtract from longer-term growth, according to the Congressional Budget Office.—
Claudia Sahm,
Mercury News,
29 July 2025
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“Deduct.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deduct. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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