deduction
Plural: deductions
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
- something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)
- reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
- the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole)
- the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise
- That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed.
- A sum that can be removed from tax calculations; something that is written off.
- That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed.
- A sum withheld from an employee's pay for the purpose of paying tax.
- A process of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific, in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true.
- A conclusion; that which is deduced, concluded or figured out
- A process of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific, in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true.
- The ability or skill to deduce or figure out; the power of reason
Examples
- He arrived at the deduction that the butler didn't do it.
- standard deduction
- Through his powers of deduction, he realized that the plan would never work.
- You might want to donate the old junk and just take the deduction.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle French déduction, from Latin deductio.
Equivalent to deduct + -ion or deduce + -tion.
Synonyms
deductive reasoning, discount, entailment, implication, price reduction, subtraction, synthesis, tax deduction, tax write-off, decrement, extract, reduction
Scrabble Score: 13
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