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say it: di-DUHK-shuhn
deduction is a noun meaning "a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket". It is pronounced /dɪˈdʌkʃən/ — di-DUHK-shuhn. It carries 6 recorded senses.
a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket
an amount or percentage deducted
something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)
“his resignation had political implications”
reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole)
“he complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks”
the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for deduction come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.