Sample sentences for DEDUCTION

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
deduction from the bill

Definition

an amount subtracted from another amount

deduction = an amount subtracted from another amount

Other Uses (with this meaning)

What will become of the tax deduction.
Edward Albee -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

deduction = amount subtracted

I got out my check-book and deducted four checks drawn since the first of the month, and discovered I had a balance of $1832.60.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises

deducted = subtracted (from the previous balance)

Every two weeks, I'd get a small paycheck and notice the line where federal and state income taxes were deducted from my wages.
J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy

deducted = subtracted

The city officials, who thought they were in charge of the project, were furious about the sums Tanimoto had deducted.
John Hersey -- Hiroshima
Emerson deducts from nature the doctrine of evolution.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
He tells me what I can deduct on my income tax return.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
She'd been working here ever since and he never deducted the fee from her salary because he needed someone, he said, to listen to his jokes.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
Personally I am only too ready to consider all your claims carefully, and deduct what is right from the total before putting in my own claim.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit
You can deduct him from the price.
Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove

2 —as in:
logical deduction

Definition

a logical conclusion; or reasoning from the general to the particular

deduction = logical conclusion

Other Uses (with this meaning)

Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

deduction = logical conclusion

But I used my powers of deduction to determine that those were two separate kinds of white wine.
J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy

deduction = logical reasoning

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