khấu
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Definition
- Verb:
- To deduct, to subtract: To take away or reduce an amount from a total sum, especially in financial or quantitative contexts.
- To withhold: To hold back a portion of something, often money, as a form of payment or penalty.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Công ty sẽ khấu 10% lương của anh ấy cho khoản tiền phạt. (The company will deduct 10% of his salary for the fine.)
- Họ đã khấu trừ thuế trước khi trả tiền. (They withheld tax before making the payment.)
- Người bán đồng ý khấu 50.000 đồng từ giá gốc. (The seller agreed to deduct 50,000 VND from the original price.)
Advanced Usage
- "khấu trừ": to deduct, to withhold (a more formal or compound term).
- Các khoản khấu trừ bắt buộc được ghi rõ trong hợp đồng. (Mandatory deductions are clearly stated in the contract.)
- "khấu hao": to depreciate (in accounting, referring to the reduction in value of an asset over time).
- Máy móc này sẽ được khấu hao trong vòng 5 năm. (This machinery will be depreciated over 5 years.)
Variants and Related Words
- Khấu trừ (v): Deduction, withholding. (A common compound verb).
- Khấu hao (v/n): Depreciation; to depreciate. (A specialized economic/accounting term).
- Khấu đầu (v, archaic/idiomatic): Literally "to deduct from the head"; can imply making excessive or unfair deductions from the beginning.
Synonyms
- Trừ (v): To subtract, to deduct. (A more general and common synonym).
- Giảm trừ (v): To reduce, to deduct. (Often used in formal contexts like taxation).
Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)
- Khấu vào lương: To deduct from salary.
- Khoản vay sẽ được khấu vào lương hàng tháng. (The loan will be deducted from the salary each month.)
- Khấu nợ: To deduct a debt.
- Họ thỏa thuận cho phép khấu nợ dần từ tiền công. (They agreed to allow the debt to be deducted gradually from the wages.)
Related Idioms
- Khấu đầu khấu đuôi: (Literally: to deduct from the head and the tail). An idiom meaning to make deductions from every possible part or aspect, often leaving very little; to nickel-and-dime.
- Hợp đồng đó khấu đầu khấu đuôi, cuối cùng chẳng còn được bao nhiêu. (That contract deducts from every end, in the end there's not much left.)