deduction
(noun)
noun
1. a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket
Definition categories: possession
2. an amount or percentage deducted
Similar word(s): discount
Definition categories: possession, adjustment, allowance
3. something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)
Similar word(s): entailment, implication
Definition categories: thought, illation, inference
4. reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
Similar word(s): synthesis
Definition categories: thought, reasoning
5. the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole)
Similar word(s): subtraction
Definition categories: act, decrease, diminution, reduction
6. the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise
Similar word(s): discount
Definition categories: act, decrease, diminution, reduction
Sentences with deduction as a noun:
- You might want to donate the old junk and just take the deduction.
- He arrived at the deduction that the butler didn't do it.
- Through his powers of deduction, he realized that the plan would never work.