Deduct is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEDUCT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to subtract
• subtract or take away (an amount or part) from a total
• To lead forth or out.
• To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of.
• To reduce; to diminish.
• make a subtraction
• retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments
• reason by deduction; establish by deduction
• subtract

Words related to DEDUCT

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How to use DEDUCT in a sentence

• If we deduct from the remainder three-twentieths for those below eighteen, those above forty-five, and those exempted by law or infirmity, one-tenth alone will remain.
• The land in question, if we deduct the sites of towns and villages and cities, as should be done, will not average in value three dollars per acre.
• They protested against permitting the traders to sit at the pay table of the government paymaster and deduct from their small annuities the amount due them.
• So he decided to stop at the theatre in the morning, and then deduct his time off duty.
• Brown, however, in whose family we spent last evening very pleasantly, on our requesting that he would deduct something from the usual fee, kindly declined accepting anything.
• He told followers that since NPDS and ASI were actually furthering their careers, they should deduct the increasing payments from their taxes.
• From this deduct in turn the four sides, and we get 64, 99, 44, and 81.
• These added together make 11 acres, which we deduct from the area of the rectangle, 20 acres, and we find that the field A contains exactly 9 acres.
• Then 4 times 18 is 72, and if we deduct 55 we get 17 as the sum of the corners.
• All you have to do is to deduct 250 from the result given, and the three figures in the answer will be the three points thrown with the dice.
• Even the newspapers do not run up the amount above a dozen per annum, from which you may safely deduct two-thirds.
• From this he would deduct one-fourth for the exemption which he proposed to give to all incomes under L150, and then the tax thus far would give him L160,000.
• Calippus, therefore, proposed to quadruple the period of Meton, and deduct one day at the end of that time by changing one of the full months into a deficient month.
• Deduct one-third from any sum to find the sum in livres tournois.
• They are allowed to deduct from the rank of a student, not exceeding one hundred for one offence.
• Let us assume that as the average time in which it would pass any given point, and deduct ten minutes for delays during that time.
• From this deduct a quarter of a mile for breaks or discrepancies, for we find the length of the column, if it moved in a continuous line, to be three and a-half miles.
• Hobbs offered to deduct two shillings a week if I stayed until Christmas, and said she should not charge me a penny for the linen.
• Proportioned to its nature, and the degree of rectitude found in it, it will deduct from the punishment which the want of it would have occasioned.
• And you can deduct the twenty-five cents out of my allowance.
• A tenant can not make repairs at the expense of the landlord, or deduct the cost of them out of the rent, unless by special agreement.
• If the amendment prevails, and those States withhold the right of suffrage from persons of color, it will deduct about thirty-seven, leaving them but forty-six.

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