deduct Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb make a subtraction
subtract; take off.
- subtract this amount from my paycheck
verb retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments
recoup; withhold.
- My employer is withholding taxes
verb reason by deduction; establish by deduction
derive; deduce; infer.

L. deductus, p. p. of deducere to deduct. See Deduce.

imperfect & past participle Deducted; present participle & verbal noun Deducting

To lead forth or out. Obs.
A people deducted out of the city of Philippos. Udall.
To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of.
Deduct what is but vanity, or dress. Pope.

Two and a half per cent should be deducted out of the pay of the foreign troops. Bp. Burnet.

We deduct from the computation of our years that part of our time which is spent in . . . infancy. Norris.
To reduce; to diminish. Obs.
Do not deduct it to days." Massinger.