deduct
verb
[ dɪˈdʌkt ]
• subtract or take away (an amount or part) from a total.
• "tax has been deducted from the payments"
Similar:
subtract,
take away,
take from,
take off,
withdraw,
abstract,
remove,
debit,
dock,
discount,
knock off,
minus,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin deduct- ‘taken or led away’, from the verb deducere . Deduct and deduce were not distinguished in sense until the mid 17th century.
