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deduction
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(noun)
deduction
(adjective)
deducible
deductive
(verb)
deduce
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
deduction
de‧duc‧tion
/
dɪˈdʌkʃ
ə
n
/
●○○
AWL
noun
[
countable, uncountable
]
1
DECIDE
the process of using the
knowledge
or information you have in order to
understand
something or form an
opinion
, or the opinion that you form
Children will soon
make deductions
about the meaning of a word.
2
COUNT/CALCULATE
the process of taking away an amount from a
total
, or the amount that is taken away
After deductions for tax etc, your salary is about £700 a month.
Examples from the Corpus
deduction
•
The amount of
income
left over after
deduction
of this
taxation
is known as
disposable
income.
•
The game teaches children
logic
and
deduction
.
•
It is
subject
to
tax
,
superannuation
and
national
insurance
deductions
-
unlike
State
Sickness
Benefit
.
•
Still,
concern
about home-buying is
why
Alexander
charges
that
eliminating
the
mortgage
interest
deduction
would cause a real-estate
crash
.
•
And now,
thanks
to a very
neat
bit
of
deduction
, you know.
•
Does it have an
offsetting
deduction
?
•
And if the Clinton
administration
does
succeed
in
withdrawing
the tax
deduction
?
•
Credit
notes
can be
exchanged
before they
mature
but this does
involve
the
deduction
of a
premium
.
•
But, of these, 82. 5
percent
of
taxpayers
with incomes higher than $ 200,000 take the
deduction
.
make deductions
•
It
means
using
evidence
,
making deductions
, seeing
conceptual
connections
and
drawing
conclusions
.
•
Meta-deduction
depends
on two
components
: an
ability
to
make deductions
, and an ability to
construct
reasoning
strategies
.
•
Nowadays I am
accustomed
to
making deductions
from a
single
piece of
clothing
or
personal
item
associated
with a
crime
.
•
It is nevertheless
possible
to
make deductions
about
stages
of
language
before
historical
records
.
•
A
weekly
tariff
income is used to
make deductions
from income
support
for
capital
between these two
sums
.
From Longman Business Dictionary
deduction
de‧duc‧tion
/
dɪˈdʌkʃ
ə
n
/
noun
[
countable, uncountable
]
the process of taking away an amount from a total, or the amount that is taken away
→
income tax deduction
→
standard deduction
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