DEDUCTS Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

deducts

verb

present tense third-person singular of deduct

as in subtracts

to take away (an amount or number) from a total after deducting taxes, what's left is your net pay for the week

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Recent Examples of deducts For example, the government deducts Medicare Part B premiums directly from many retirees’ Social Security checks. — Pankaj Agrrawal, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2026 What happened Imagine an ATM that checks your balance, dispenses the money, then deducts the amount from your account. — Emin Gün Sirer, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026 The state’s homestead market-value exclusion program automatically deducts a certain amount of value for the purpose of calculating property taxes. — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2026 Players had been negotiating for a percentage of overall revenue without factoring in expenses while the WNBA was seeking sharing tied to net revenue, mirroring the NBA’s structure that deducts expenses before sharing 50% of profits. — Marisa Ingemi, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026 The company deducts the tax preparation fee from your refund before depositing the remaining balance into your account. — Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 25 Feb. 2026 Two buyers can quote you 95% of the spot price to buy your gold assets, but if one deducts fees, shipping and assay costs from that price — and the other doesn't — there's a clear winner in the mix. — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026 But, in practice, charters operating in independent facilities only receive $17,606 per student after CPS deducts pension and debt costs, according to the district’s budget book. — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2026 For teams that sell their own merchandise, such as the Oilers, CNBC deducts the cost of goods sold from merchandise sales. — Michael Ozanian, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025

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subtracts

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Gross margin is the percentage of revenue left after a company subtracts its direct costs, so the higher the margin the better for the company.

— John Magsam, Arkansas Online, 13 Aug. 2026
Vitae and Willpower/Health merge into a single resource, Difficulty subtracts dice from a pool rather than raising a target number, and players roll nearly all of the dice at the table.

— Jennifer Maas, Variety, 30 July 2026

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