verb
definition
To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount.
example
I will deduct the cost of the can of peas from the money I owe you.
Examples of deducting in a Sentence
Now this consulship corresponded with the 238th year of our era; therefore, deducting 238 from 991, we have 753 to denote the year before Christ.
In 1905 the wage-earners engaged in manufacturing (under the factory system) numbered 18,475, and the total capital invested in manufacturing was $50,925,630; the gross value of products was $41,160,276; the net value (deducting the value of material purchased in partly manufactured form) was $16,276,470.
After deducting debts owing abroad the public and private wealth of the colony is calculated to be about £270,000,000.
Next comes the distinction of the gross national revenue from the net - the first being the whole produce of the land and labour of a country, the second what remains after deducting the expense of maintaining the fixed capital of the country and that part of its circulating capital which consists of money.
Deducting from the total value of manufactured products in 1905 the cost of partially manufactured materials, including mill supplies; a net or true value of $9,821,205,387 remains.
Deducting from this the cost of raw materials and adding the cost of mill supplies, the result$6,743,399,7f8
It is not known at what time the practice of having the amount due settled by the community was altered into that according to which it was settled by the governor, or at what time the practice of deducting from the total certain expenses necessary for the maintenance of the community was abandoned.
Those published are generally based on the principle of deducting the Protestant from the general population of " Catholic " countries and ascribing the rest to the Roman Church.
When an amount will fall due at some future date, the present value of the debt is found by deducting discount at some rate per cent.
In the year ending on the 30th of September 1908 the receipts of the state treasury were $3,925,492, the expenditure $4,74 1, 549, and the funded debt, deducting a Civil List Fund of $325,513 in the treasury, was $548,586.
Each player had bisques, their number calculated by deducting 14 from their handicap.
Therefore, the £ 5,000 has been added to net salary and benefits before calculating and deducting the amount attributable to overseas workdays.
Either method offers a way to pay less in income taxes by deducting the cost of childcare.
The net income for the paying parent and the recipient is calculated by deducting the allowable deductions from each party's gross income.
Tax deducting long distance calls or portions of phone service related to an at-home business.
Automatically deducting a certain amount of money (even just $10) or percentage of your paycheck and putting it into an emergency savings account.
A sole proprietor may not be reimbursing himself, but he will be deducting business travel and expenses from his taxes.
The IRS specifically disallows deducting personal expenses as business tax deductions.
Deducting a portion of your housing expense often involves measuring the workspace square footage and dividing by the square footage of livable space in your home.
The multi-line method consists of beginning with the gross profit and then deducting expenses based on the type of expense.
Usually, you can deduct the exact dollar amount you paid, but sometimes you may be limited to deducting only a percentage of the paid tax.
Therefore, in the end you might end up deducting as much as, if not more, than the cost of your improvements.
The wages weren't all that great, but deducting rent, utilities and groceries from her present salary, it wound up being a good deal more.
Deducting vacancies, sick and absent, the effective strength of the active army in 1906 was 540,563; of the gendarmerie and Garde Rpublicaine 24,512; of colonial troops in the colonies 58,568.
If the total resistance against which the train is maintained in motion with an instantaneous velocity of V feet per second is R, the rate at which energy is expended in moving the train is represented by the product RV, and this must be the rate at which energy is supplied to the train after deducting all losses due to transmission from the source of power.
A much better approximation to the heat of combustion of such substances is obtained by deducting the oxygen together with the amount of carbon necessary to form C02, and then ascertaining the amount of heat produced by the residual carbon and hydrogen.
Exclusive of the garrison of Bayonne and other places, the available field force of Soult numbered about 41,000, while that of the Allies, deducting Hope's force observing Bayonne, was of much the same strength.