deducted; deducting; deducts
Examples of deduct in a Sentence
You can deduct up to $500 for money given to charity.
after deducting taxes, what's left is your net pay for the week
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Biden is also pushing a new tax on corporate jet travel, in part by targeting a lucrative provision that lets companies quickly deduct the cost of their planes.
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Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
One of the most common ways to get a discount on both federal and private student loans is by signing up for autopay, which means that your payments are automatically deducted from an attached bank account.
—Becca Stanek, theweek, 27 May 2024
But there are other ways to pay: A debit card: A debit card or bank card deducts money directly from your bank account.
—Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 24 May 2024
For the 2026 tax year and after, all retirees will be able to deduct their retirement or pension benefits up to 100% of a set amount that typically would have only applied to those born in 1945 and earlier.
—Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2024
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Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
One of the most common ways to get a discount on both federal and private student loans is by signing up for autopay, which means that your payments are automatically deducted from an attached bank account.
—Becca Stanek, theweek, 27 May 2024
But there are other ways to pay: A debit card: A debit card or bank card deducts money directly from your bank account.
—Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 24 May 2024
For the 2026 tax year and after, all retirees will be able to deduct their retirement or pension benefits up to 100% of a set amount that typically would have only applied to those born in 1945 and earlier.
—Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2024
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deduct
transitive verb
de·duct
: to take away (an amount) from a total
specifically
: to take as a deduction
must be capitalized…rather than immediately deducted —D. Q. Posin
compare amortize
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