deductde‧duct /dɪˈdʌkt/ ●○○ verb [transitive] 
The payments will be deducted from your salary.—deductible adjective: Interest charges are tax deductible.
WORD ORIGINdeduct
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin deductus, past participle of deducere; ➔ DEDUCEVERB TABLE
deduct
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | deduct |
| he, she, it | deducts | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | deducted |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have deducted |
| he, she, it | has deducted | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had deducted |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will deduct |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have deducted |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am deducting |
| he, she, it | is deducting | |
| you, we, they | are deducting | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was deducting |
| you, we, they | were deducting | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been deducting |
| he, she, it | has been deducting | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been deducting |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be deducting |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been deducting |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Marks may be deducted for illegible handwriting.
- Self-employed business owners could deduct all health insurance costs.
- Your employer will deduct income tax from your salary.
- Your monthly repayments will be deducted from the total amount that you owe.
- Employees carry the other half, which they may not deduct.
- Issuers are able to deduct the interest they pay on TOPrs and similar securities because they are debt.
- Provided there was a valid card in the box, the beacon would deduct some of its value and record no details.
- That will tend to be offshore as banks and building societies in this country have to deduct tax at source.
- The deal also would have allowed the 49ers to deduct the taxes from the price.
- The manager executes the deals for a small annual fee - usually 0.5 percent deducted from the interest earned.
- Total drawings for the year would be deducted from capital.
Longman Language Activatorto take one number away from another
especially spoken to take one number from another and calculate the answer: take something (away) from: · If you take 37 from 94 you get 57.· Take 19 away from 48 and then add 15.
to take one number from another and calculate the answer: · To convert the temperature into Celsius, subtract 32, then multiply by 5 and divide by 9.subtract something from something: · Subtract 12 from 32.
use minus between numbers or amounts to show that you are taking one figure from another: · 30 minus 5 leaves 25.· Here's the twenty dollars I owe you, minus seven dollars for the movie.
to take away an amount of money, points etc from a total, especially when following official rules or an official system: · Marks may be deducted for illegible handwriting.deduct something from something: · Your employer will deduct income tax from your salary.· Your monthly repayments will be deducted from the total amount that you owe.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Interest charges are tax deductible.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
to take away an amount or part from a total SYN subtractdeduct something from something Interest charges are tax deductible.· From this will be deducted the amount that you have earned if you have found another job.· From this gross total is deducted the amount they collect in prescription charges.
· They would go straight to his agent, who would deduct his commission and the rest went to pay the tax man.
· Finally, from the 40p would be deducted the cost of the telephone call or postage stamp to make the complaint.· Individuals would not pay taxes on interest or investment income, and businesses could not deduct the cost of fringe benefits.· Wilgro provides all the compost, peat and packaging deducting the cost against mushrooms subsequently produced.· The amount of the investment tax credit is also deducted from the cost of the new equipment.· This is even before others realize their employers no longer will be able to deduct the cost of their health insurance.· Because companies could no longer deduct the cost of health and life insurance, they may stop offering all but retirement benefits.
· This would normally be deducted from dividend income before calculating the income available for distribution to unit holders.· When making that payment, Tradeco must deduct income tax at the basic rate and pay that to the Revenue.· This must be deducted from the income received.· From this figure they deduct their estimated income from charges and central government grants together with any cash balances available for the purpose.· You do not have to deduct it from your income, as in the case of personal allowances.· These allowances, plus a few others, are deducted from the total income to produce the taxable income.
· The manager executes the deals for a small annual fee - usually 0.5 percent deducted from the interest earned.· Since Uncle Sam lets firms deduct interest payments to bondholders, he tilts the field to-ward bonds.· Societies deducted the interest at the time so never paid the full amount of the loan, which greatly enhanced their profits.· Now assume the investor bought the stock with a loan and deducted the interest, as currently allowed.· The basic rate tax is deducted from the interest at source.· Preferred dividends are deducted because, unlike interest paid to bondholders, they are not a tax-deductible expense of doing business.· And the corporation saves additional tax by deducting the interest on the loan, which you could not have done.· Issuers are able to deduct the interest they pay on TOPrs and similar securities because they are debt.
· Since Uncle Sam lets firms deduct interest payments to bondholders, he tilts the field to-ward bonds.· You pay tax on the compensation, but the corporation saves an offsetting amount of tax by deducting the compensation payment.
· Discounted rate - A percentage is deducted from the rack rate.· Premiums are therefore deducted from the spot rate.· Banks and building societies automatically deduct tax at the rate of 20 per cent from all interest paid.· At present, interest on deposits is paid after deducting a fixed rate of tax, which can not be reclaimed by non-taxpayers.
· That will tend to be offshore as banks and building societies in this country have to deduct tax at source.· Yet when tax is deducted at source, as is the case with a Pay-As-You-Earn scheme, that is precisely what happens.
· That will tend to be offshore as banks and building societies in this country have to deduct tax at source.· The deal also would have allowed the 49ers to deduct the taxes from the price.· Whatever the K codes is, not more than half of your salary can be deducted in tax like this.· And they did not deduct taxes before figuring the percentage.· The purchaser will be able to deduct before tax the acquisition cost of trading stock and work in progress.· Banks and building societies automatically deduct tax at the rate of 20 per cent from all interest paid.· When making that payment, Tradeco must deduct income tax at the basic rate and pay that to the Revenue.
VERB· The sheriff's officer is entitled to deduct his own costs from the net proceeds of the sale.
The payments will be deducted from your salary.—deductible adjective: Interest charges are tax deductible.