deduction

Noun

• the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise

• the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole)
  • he complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks
    

• reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)

• something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)
  • his resignation had political implications
    

• an amount or percentage deducted

• a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  discount , price reduction , subtraction , deductive reasoning , synthesis , entailment , implication , tax write-off , tax deduction