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deduction as in:  deduction from the bill

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    After deductions for taxes and health insurance, her take-home pay was significantly less than her gross salary.
    deductions = amounts subtracted
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    The sale value of these items will, of course, be deducted from your outstanding credit balance.  (source)
    deducted = subtracted
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    You will have a camp job, too, sweeping the wooden platform every afternoon, for which they will deduct a little from our rent each month.  (source)
    deduct = subtract
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    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.  (source)
    deduct = subtract
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    The barite mine where Dad worked had a commissary, and the mine owner deducted our bill and the rent for the depot out of Dad's paycheck every month.  (source)
    deducted = subtracted
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    Of the five-and-twenty pounds which had remained to her of Clare's allowance, after deducting the other half of the fifty as a contribution to her parents for the trouble and expense to which she had put them, she had as yet spent but little.†  (source)
    deducting = subtracting
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    When that didn't work, she stressed the tax deduction angle, and—because she had worked hard to cultivate contacts with tax and estate lawyers throughout the South—she often received items before other libraries even found out about them.  (source)
    deduction = reduction
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    Once they got finished slapping you with pay deductions, late fees, and interest penalties, you wound up owing them more each month, instead of less.  (source)
    deductions = amounts subtracted from another amount
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    He deducts for telephone calls.†  (source)
    deducts = subtracts
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    They deduct the price from your scholarship, same as room and board.†  (source)
    deduct = subtract
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    Every two weeks, I'd get a small paycheck and notice the line where federal and state income taxes were deducted from my wages.  (source)
    deducted = subtracted
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    The Christmas holidays he spent—deducting ten days for private amusements—with Lurgan Sahib, where he sat for the most part in front of a roaring wood-fire—Jakko road was four feet deep in snow that year—and—the small Hindu had gone away to be married—helped Lurgan to thread pearls.†  (source)
    deducting = subtracting
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    What will become of the tax deduction.  (source)
    deduction = amount subtracted
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deduction as in:  logical deduction

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    Based on deduction from the clues at the crime scene, such as the footprints and the broken lock, the detective concluded that the burglar had entered and exited through the window.
    deduction = reasoning to reach a logical conclusion
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    Given what we know, it is the only logical deduction.
    deduction = logical conclusion
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    For 150 years, ever since the discovery of gigantic animal bones in Europe, the study of dinosaurs had been an exercise in scientific deduction.  (source)
    deduction = logical conclusions reached by reasoning
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    But I used my powers of deduction to determine that those were two separate kinds of white wine.  (source)
    deduction = logical reasoning
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    The confinement building man from Kansas was staying at the motel in Zebulon Center, and said that while there was a company policy against meals with the people they were working for, because it screwed up expense account tax deductions, he'd be happy to make one exception and eat with us the next night, if we wanted.†  (source)
    deductions = logical conclusions reached by reasoning
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    There will be three tasks, spaced throughout the school year, and they will test the champions in many different ways...their magical prowess — their daring — their powers of deduction — and, of course, their ability to cope with danger.  (source)
    deduction = logical reasoning
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    She began to talk, pulling deductions from the top of her head.†  (source)
    deductions = logical conclusions reached by reasoning
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    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.  (source)
    deduction = logical conclusion
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    If they hoped to finish well, the Fugees needed to win, and as important, to avoid getting any red cards, which brought mandatory point deductions.†  (source)
    deductions = logical conclusions reached by reasoning
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    As she continued to mull over these thoughts, a deduction made her shudder: Is it possible that the relationship between humanity and evil is similar to the relationship between the ocean and an iceberg floating on its surface?†  (source)
    deduction = logical conclusion
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    He was an avid pilot, and the new legislation also provided tax deductions for ConAgra's corporate jets.†  (source)
    deductions = logical conclusions reached by reasoning
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    Lower right cheek or upper thigh would seem by deduction to be the most likely.†  (source)
    deduction = logical conclusion
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    For three hours, she'd listened to Bob drone on and on about itemized deductions and capital gains distributions, depreciation and 401(k) rollovers.†  (source)
    deductions = logical conclusions reached by reasoning
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