Deduct

Definitions: Deduct

Deduct

Verb

1. Make a subtraction.

2. Retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments; "My employer is withholding taxes".

3. Reason by deduction; establish by deduction.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "deduct" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1734. (references)

Note: Deduct \De*duct"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Deducted; present participle verb or noun Deducting.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Deduct

Nonaddition Subtraction

Verb: subduct, subtract; deduct, deduce; bate, retrench; remove, withdraw, take from, take away; detract.

Taking

Take from, take away from; disseize; deduct; retrench; (curtail); dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one's grasp; tear from, tear away from, wrench from, wrest from, wring from; extort; deprive of, bereave; disinherit, cut off with a shilling.

Crosswords: Deduct

Books

• Deduct This Book!: How Not to Pay Taxes While Ronald Reagan Is President (reference)

• How to Deduct Entertaining at Home (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

Importers may deduct the paid value-added tax (IVA) from their bi-monthly IVA tax reports when retail sales are made to third parties either as the final product or as a part of a more complex system. (references)

Taxpayers can deduct 10% of the purchase price from their tax base for installations like thermal pumps, electric generator aggregates for combined heat and power (CHP) up to 2.5 MWh and other electric equipment. (references)

Enterprises that purchase fixed assets with bank loans will be able to deduct any interest paid on the loans from their taxable profits, i.e. leased equipment would be taxed the same way as equipment purchased through borrowed funds. (references)

Economic History

Finland

Companies in Finland may not deduct bribes paid abroad as export promotion expenses. (references)

Denmark

In 1998, the Danish Ministry of Taxation repealed the right to deduct from taxes bribes paid by business to officials abroad. (references)

Philippines

In addition, such enterprises can deduct from taxable income an amount equivalent to 100 percent of outlays for infrastructure works. (references)

Trade

Egypt

Banks deduct loan repayments from the export proceeds. (references)

Germany

The tax levied on the business is invoiced to customers, who may deduct it from their own liability. (references)

Jamaica

U.S. taxpayers are allowed to deduct legitimate business expenses incurred in attending business meetings and conventions in Jamaica. (references)

Worker Rights

Kuwait

Many employers deduct the medical fees from employees' salaries. (references)

Kazakhstan

At some enterprises, the state-sponsored unions continued to deduct 1 percent of each worker's wage as dues. (references)

Indonesia

Unions report that on many occasions companies automatically deduct union dues for the SPSI from workers affiliated with other unions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "deduct": deduct from ♦ deduct tare. Additional references.

Albanian

zbres (alight, bring down, climb down, debus, descend, dip, discount, dismount, dive, drop off, go down, knock off, let off, light, lower, reckon off, recoup, step down, subduct, subtract, take away), mbaj (attach, Bate, bear, breed, carry, enshrine, force upon, get off, give, have, have smth. on, hold, keep, keep on, maintain, man, perform, pitch, preserve, refrain, respect, retain, save, support, sustain, wear, withhold), heq (abate, abolish, avert, bereave, blow, call off, cast, clear away, clear out, cross, cut off, cut out, delete, derogate, detach, detrude, dislodge, dismiss, dismount, divest, do away with, doff, drag, draw, drop, eject, eliminate, erase, exhaust, expel, exscind, extract, gather in, generate, get off, jump, keep off, kill, lift, lift off, move off, off with, omit, oust, peel back, pick off, pull at, pull off, pull out, put aside, put off, relegate, remove, save, scour, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, shake out, shed, skim, skip, soothe, spay, strike off, strip, subtract, swing, take away, take off, take out, tear away, throw out, turn away, undergo, unhang, unhook, unpin, unstring). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حسم (clench, clinch, decide, decision, deduction, determination, determine, discount, discounting, dispose, rebate, recoup, refund, settlement, sew up, shave), ‏طرح (excrete, fling, floor, heave, lay, molt, moult, posit, put aside, put away, reject, squirt, subtract, subtraction, take away, throw away, toss), ‏خصم (adversary, antagonist, concurrent, discount, enemy, foe, hostile, knock off, levy, litigant, opposite, rebate, recoup, subtract, subtraction, withhold), ‏إقتطع (cut, withhold), ‏إستنتج (conclude, deduce, derive, draw, draw conclusions, educe, estimate, induce, infer, put two and two together, ratiocinate, understand). (various references)

Bulgarian 

удържам (honor, honour, stop, subduct), намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, decrease, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down), изваждам (abstract, bring on, bring out, draw, draw out, drive out, eject, excerpt, extract, fetch, fish out, gouge, knock out, lay out, move out, oust, pick, pick up, pull, put out, subduct, subtract, take away, take from, take out, turn up, uncase, unpin, unship, whip out). (various references)

Chinese 

扣除 (Debited, Debiting, Deducted, Deducting, Deduction). (various references)

Czech

odeèíst (take off). (various references)

Danish

pris,som indeholder den moms,der er faktureret enten af producenten eller ved indførslen,uden hensyntagen til,om køberen kan trække denne moms fra den,han har faktureret på sine egne produkter (price including the VAT invoiced-by the producer or on import-irrespective of whether the purchaser can deduct this tax from the VAT he invoices), fratraekke den allerede erlagte afgift (deduct tax already paid). (various references)

Dutch

wegnemen (abstract, take away), ritsen (grooving, score, scoring, scratch, take away), rissen (take away), afhalen (abide, await, collection, expect, meet, pick up, string, take along, take away, take up, wait, wait for). (various references)

Esperanto

depreni (take away). (various references)

Faeroese

taka av (take away). (various references)

Farsi 

کم کردن (Alleviate, Bate, Cut, Deduce, Detract, Drawoff, Extenuate, Rebate, Reduce, Relax, Retrench, Shade, Soften, Subtract, Thin, Weaken), کسرکردن (Detract, Mute), وضع کردن (Ordain). (various references)

Finnish

vähentää (abate, attenuate, curtail, cut, decrease, detract from, diminish, lessen, reduce, subtract, take from, take off), poistaa (abolish, delete, demount, do away with, eliminate, exclude, purge, remove, strike out, take out, to excavate, to remove a volume from a tape unit or a direct-access device, weeding, withdraw, write off). (various references)

French

retrancher, prélever. (various references)

German

abziehen (bottle, decal, detract, disengage, doffing, down-line load, downline loading, downloading, escape, fire, flay, go away, go off, machine, move away, peel away, peel back, print, print off, pull, pull off, pull out, remove, roll away, run off, sharpen, siphon off, skin, skinning, slope away, slope off, squeeze the trigger, strip, strip off, strop, subtract, subtraction, take away, take off, to deduct, to flay, to skin, to strop, to subtract, to take off the skin, withdraw, withdrawal, work off), abrechnen (cash up, clear, count down, get even, liquidate, settle, settle up, square up, take off, to deduct). (various references)

Greek 

εκπίπτω (decline, ebb, fail, fall, rebate). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחסר (cause loss, decrease, lessen, miss someone, reduce, subtract), ל�"חסיר (be absent, leave out, omit, subtract), ל� כות (discount, subtract). (various references)

Hungarian

levon (detract, subtract, take away, to deduct, to impress, to recoup, to subtract, to take away), levezet (deduce, to conduct, to deduce, to educe), leszámít (to discount), kivon (educe, extract, pull off, pull out, to defecate, to educe, to extract, to phase out, to pull out, to subtract). (various references)

Indonesian

mengurangi (abridge, attenuate, curtail, deaden, detract, diminish, relieve, substract), memotong (butcher, dissect, dock, hamstring, intersect, lop, prune). (various references)

Italian

detrarre (detract), defalcare (defalcate), dedurre (abstract, conclude, deduce, elicit, gather, induce, infer), trattenere (Bate, contain, curb, detain, deter, entertain, hold, hold back, hold off, inhibit, keep, keep oneself, pull in, remain, restrain, retain, suppress, withhold), sottrarre (abstract, appropriate, deprive, detract, evade, get out, purloin, rescue, shirk, steal, subtract), scontare (atone for, calculation of present value, discount, discounting, pay for, reduce, serve), scaricare (abort, disburden, discard, discharge, disembogue, dump, empty, exhaust, flow, jettison, land, offload, release, relieve, run down, set down, tip, unlade, unload, unloading, unwind, vent). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

引き去る (to deduct, to retreat, to withdraw), 差し引く (to deduct). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひきさる (to deduct, to retreat, to withdraw), さしひく (to deduct). (various references)

Korean 

공� �하십시�". (various references)

Manx

giarrey jeh (amputate, amputation, apocope, chop off, cut off, snip off, strike off). (various references)

Norwegian

trekke fra (discount). (various references)

Pig Latin

eductday

Portuguese

tirar (abstract, bag, disburden, dog, drag out, get, get off, haul, in force, iron out, lay hold of, lug, machine, pick, pick up, pilfer, pluck, print, pull, pull off, pull out, put off, remove, rip, rub out, scour, take, take away, take off, take out, tear off, vail, withdraw, work off, wrest). (various references)

Romanian

defalca, deduce (argue, collect, conclude, deduce, draw, educe, evolve, gather, induce, infer), scãdea (abate, abstract, decay, decline, decrease, deflate, depress, derogate from, diminish, drop, dwindle, ebb, fade, fall, go down, lower, recede, reduce, relax, sag, shrink, sink, subside, subtract, take off, wane). (various references)

Russian 

вычитать (reckon off, recoup, subduct, subtract, subtracted, subtracts, take off). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

oduzeti (deprive, detract, palsy, subduct, subtract, take away, take up, tarnish), odbiti (cast aside, counter, decline, deny, disallow, dock, drive back, fend off, fight off, keep off, knock off, overrule, parry, rebuff, reflect, refuse, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, stave off, strike up, throw back, turn away, turn back, turn down, ward off, wean). (various references)

Spanish

deducir (conclude, count down, deduce, derive, gather, relieve). (various references)

Swedish

dra av (discount, pull off, strip). (various references)

Turkish

düşmek (behoove, behove, collapse, come down, come down in the world, crash, crumble, crumple, crumple up, decline, decrease, degrade, dive, droop, drop, drop down, drop off, ebb, end up, fall, fall among, fall down, fall from, fall in a heap, fall off, fall on, fall on evil days, fall over, go down, land, lapse, pitch, plonk, plunge, plunk, recede, rest with, sag, scale down, sink, sink into, step down, subside into, take a toss, tumble, tumble down), hesaptan indirmek, çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references)

Ukranian 

утримувати (aliment, cater, detain, deter, hold, interdict, keep, maintain, retain, subsist), скидати (bare, cast, cast down, cast off, deject, depose, detrude, dismount, dump, jettison, kick off, lay off, precipitate, remove, shuck off, subvert, throw down, throw off, toss), відраховувати (tell off, throw off), віднімати (abstract, denude, deprive, subduct, subtract, take away). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự trừ đi sự suy ra (deduction), sự suy luận (deduction, ratiocination), sự suy diễn điều suy luận (deduction), sự luận ra (deduction, evolvement), sự lấy đi (clearing, deduction, detraction), sự khấu đi (deduction). (various references)

1. �ab. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "deduct": deducted, deductibilities, deductibility, deductible, deductibles, deducting, deduction, deductions, deductive, deductively, deducts. (additional references)

Words containing "deduct": nondeductibilities, nondeductibility, nondeductible, nondeductive. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Deduct" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dedact, dedic, dedict, dedit, deduc, defuct, Degucht, douct, Duduc, reduct, seduct. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ducted.

-1 letter: educt.

-2 letters: cued, cute, duce, duct, dude, duet.

-3 letters: cud, cue, cut, dud, due, ecu, ted.

-4 letters: de, ed, et, ut.

+1 letter: deducts.

+2 letters: abducted, adducent, adducted, caudated, deducted, educated, inducted, traduced.

+3 letters: adductive, conducted, cruddiest, cuddliest, deciduate, deducting, deduction, deductive, outchided, outdanced, subducted.

+4 letters: acidulated, adjudicate, decussated, deductible, deductions, destructed, discounted, documented, duplicated, elucidated, fecundated, introduced, outchidden, outscolded, reeducated, reinducted, transduced, uncredited, undecadent, underacted, undetected, undirected, undoctored, uneducated, unindicted.

+5 letters: adjudicated, adjudicates, candidature, decrepitude, deductibles, deductively, edulcorated, miseducated, outproduced, undecorated, undedicated, unmedicated.

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