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as in: deduction from the bill Define
an amount subtracted from another amount
- ’Let me see; four fives is twenty, double that, and deduct the—well, a pound either way shall not stand betwixt us.
- With another sigh Mr Knag took up the kitchen candles from the counter, and preceded the ladies with mournful steps to a back-parlour, where a charwoman, employed in the absence of the sick servant, and remunerated with certain eighteenpences to be deducted from her wages due, was putting the supper out.
- There was a 10 point deduction because the paper was late.
- What will become of the tax deduction.Edward Albee -- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- The last he held to be a very logical deduction from the premises, inasmuch as it was but natural to suppose that a young lady, whose present condition was so unenviable, would be more than commonly desirous to change it.
- It’s plain, then, that I must have the whole amount, clear of all deduction or incumbrance, or I should lose from being honoured with your confidence, instead of gaining by it.
- Long habit of weighing and noting well what clients said, and nicely balancing chances in his mind and calculating odds to their faces, without the least appearance of being so engaged, had rendered Gride quick in forming conclusions, and arriving, from puzzling, intricate, and often contradictory premises, at very cunning deductions.
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as in: deduction from the bill Define
an amount subtracted from another amount
as in: logical deduction
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a logical conclusion; or reasoning from the general to the particular
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