DEDUCT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deduct mean? 

• DEDUCT (verb)
  The verb DEDUCT has 3 senses:

1. make a subtraction

2. retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments

3. reason by deduction; establish by deduction

  Familiarity information: DEDUCT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEDUCT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they deduct    ... he / she / it deducts   
Past simple: deducted   
Past participle: deducted   
-ing form: deducting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a subtraction

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

deduct; subtract; take off

Context example:

subtract this amount from my paycheck

Hypernyms (to "deduct" is one way to...):

calculate; cipher; compute; cypher; figure; reckon; work out (make a mathematical calculation or computation)

Domain category:

arithmetic (the branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deduct"):

carry back (deduct a loss or an unused credit from taxable income for a prior period)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

deduction (the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

deduct; recoup; withhold

Context example:

My employer is withholding taxes

Hypernyms (to "deduct" is one way to...):

hold on; keep (retain possession of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deduct"):

dock (deduct from someone's wages)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Sentence example:

They deduct the money

Derivation:

deductible (acceptable as a deduction (especially as a tax deduction))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Reason by deduction; establish by deduction

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

deduce; deduct; derive; infer

Hypernyms (to "deduct" is one way to...):

conclude; reason; reason out (decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion)

Domain category:

logic; logical system; system of logic (a system of reasoning)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deduct"):

extrapolate (gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating)

surmise (infer from incomplete evidence)

elicit (derive by reason)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

deduction (reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect))

 Context examples 

His face blazed with wrath, and he shouted in stentorian tones that echoed down the universe, "I shall deduct the cost of those cuffs from your wages!"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The first heedless scheme had been to go in the morning and return at night; but to this Mr Musgrove, for the sake of his horses, would not consent; and when it came to be rationally considered, a day in the middle of November would not leave much time for seeing a new place, after deducting seven hours, as the nature of the country required, for going and returning.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

There was a sale of the furniture and lease, at Norwood; and Tiffey told me, little thinking how interested I was in the story, that, paying all the just debts of the deceased, and deducting his share of outstanding bad and doubtful debts due to the firm, he wouldn't give a thousand pounds for all the assets remaining.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)