to deduct

Examples

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• Assuming that twenty years earlier the crafts were slightly less commercialized, I deducted 10 percent, leaving 2,400.

  Academic text (1994)

• To make the conclusion that trade is good, one has to deduct these costs.

  Blog text (20)

• I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well.

  Blog text (16)

• You can generally deduct hobby expenses, but only up to the amount of hobby income.

  Blog text (15)

• If your code was "messy" (by his standards), he would deduct points.

  Blog text (30)

• I don't think the judges will deduct any points regarding the brakes.

  Fiction book (1996)

• The federal government can cause trouble with marijuana producers and retailers by using the tax code to stop them from deducting business taxes.

  Blog text (12)

• There are men who aren't going to view it in that negative way who are cool with it, but there's a lot who are going to deduct points from you for it.

• When U.S. independent schools struggled in the 1970s, many put their hopes in tuition tax credits, which would allow those enrolling their children in independent schools to deduct some of the tuition expense from their federal income tax.

  Academic text (2006)

• You can deduct the necessary expenses from your taxable income when filing your taxes.

Synonyms

I

to infer

vsto deduct

57 5.5

Decide that something is true using evidence

emphasizes deduction from known facts rather than opinion

D

to deduce

vsto deduct

45 4.6

Figure out something from facts or evidence

is the same in meaning but uses a different form

D

to derive

vsto deduct

14 4.3

Find a result or conclusion by careful thinking

focuses specifically on reaching a conclusion from known facts

Phrasal Verbs

D

to deduct points

1 2.5

Take points away from a score as a penalty

How Certain

to prove

∞ 3.1

to conclude

428 3.1

to infer

57 5.5

to deduct

3 4.4

guess

768 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology