Deduct

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To take away (a quantity) from another; subtract.
  • v. To derive by deduction; deduce.
  • verb-intransitive. To take away a desirable part: Poor plumbing deducts from the value of the house.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To lead forth or out.
  • v. To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of.
  • v. To reduce; to diminish.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To lead forth or away; deduce; conduct.
  • To trace out; set forth.
  • To bring down; reduce.
  • To take away, separate, or remove in numbering, estimating, or calculating; subtract, as a counterbalancing item or particular: as, to deduct losses from the total receipts; from the amount of profits deduct the freight-charges.
  • Synonyms Deduct, Subtract. These words cannot properly be used interchangeably. Deduct is to lead away, set aside, in a general or distributive sense; subtract, to draw off, remove, in a literal or collective sense. In settling a mercantile account, certain items, as charges, losses, etc., are deducted by being added together and their total subtracted from the grand total of the transaction. From a parcel of goods of known value or number articles are subtracted or literally taken away as required; the value or number of the remainder at any time may be ascertained by deducting the value or number of those taken from the original package; and this again is effected by subtracting the figures representing the smaller amount from those representing the larger.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make a subtraction
  • v. retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments
  • v. reason by deduction; establish by deduction
  • Antonym
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    Verb Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    subtract    reduce    diminish    abstract    remove    defalcate    rebate    recoup   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    abduct    bucked    chucked    conduct    construct    deconstruct    destruct    ducked    duct    fucked