2 meanings
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1 —as in:
deduction from the bill
Definition
an amount subtracted from another amount- There was a 10 point deduction because the paper was late.
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?
- 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
- 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
- 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
deduction = amount subtracted
deducted = subtracted (from the previous balance)
deducted = subtracted
2 —as in:
logical deduction
Definition
a logical conclusion; or reasoning from the general to the particular- Given what we know, it is the only logical deduction.
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
- 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 conclusion
deduction = logical reasoning
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