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deduction   (TTS Sound)

The noun deduction has 6 senses

• tax write-off, tax deduction, deduction -- (a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket)


• deduction, discount -- (an amount or percentage deducted)


• deduction, entailment, implication -- (something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications")


• deduction, deductive reasoning, synthesis -- (reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect))


• subtraction, deduction -- (the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole); "he complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks")


• discount, price reduction, deduction -- (the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise)