2 to take away an amount or part from a total: --
Tax and National Insurance contributions are deducted at source, before you receive your salary.
Each week a small amount is deducted from her wages for the pension plan.
deduct sth from sth By arrangement with your mortgage holder, you can have them automatically deduct a regular payment from a checking or savings account.
3 to take away the cost of particular things from the amount of money that you have earned, before you pay tax on it: --
deduct sth from sth There are many expenses you can deduct from your income before calculating tax.
This debt and its accumulated interest is deducted from the labourer's share of the harvest.
For instance, it is unclear whether imports of raw materials to the local industries are deducted.
Since depreciation of associated capital is counted in the core accounts, it must be deducted here to avoid double counting.
The worker will have pension contributions (calculated at the risk-free rate) deducted from wages, leaving cash wages as shown by the bottom solid line.
Split/deduction: an object is subdivided in two or more new objects or one or more objects are deducted from an existing object.
Points were added for correct no-go responses and deducted for response errors on both go and no-go trials.
Membership fees of mostly $5 monthly were automatically deducted from the seafarers' pay.
However, growers generally think of themselves as paying the assessment since, in practice, the assessment is deducted from their payment from the handler.