deduction

Other forms of deduction

plural

deductions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deduction

What does deduction mean?

deduction means "a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deduction?

deduction has 3 syllables: de-duc-tion. The stress falls on "duc". In IPA it is /dɪˈdʌkʃən/.

What is another word for deduction?

Close synonyms include tax write-off, tax deduction, discount, entailment, implication. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deduction a common word?

deduction is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with deduction?

10 words rhyme with deduction. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.