Deduction - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|dɪˈdʌkʃn|
Brit.
|dɪˈdʌkʃ(ə)n|
noun
- a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket
- an amount or percentage deducted (syn: discount)
- something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) (syn: implication)
- reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) (syn: synthesis)
- the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole) (syn: subtraction)
- the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise (syn: discount)
- an amount or percentage deducted (syn: discount)
- something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) (syn: implication)
- reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) (syn: synthesis)
- the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole) (syn: subtraction)
- the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise (syn: discount)
Extra examples
The government is offering new tax deductions for small businesses.
What is your pay after the deductions have been taken out?
His guess was based on intuition rather than deduction.
Our deduction was based on the information given to us at the time.
It was a logical deduction.
Our employer makes a deduction from our salary for the income tax.
Let us draw a deduction from the facts.
The detective has to discover the murderer by logical deduction.
Word forms
noun
singular: deduction
plural: deductions
singular: deduction
plural: deductions
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