deduct
verb (used with object)
to take away, as from a sum or amount.
had deducted
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past perfectof deduct.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Her employer had deducted a couple of thousand dollars from her paycheck in early 2022 to put into her retirement account, but less than half that amount was transferred over.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025
"To my shock, I saw that they had deducted not £4.50 but £4,586 from my account," she recalled.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
The shock of the sudden loss—and it was a loss, even though it wasn’t as if the Millionaire producers had deducted $225,000 from my actual bank account—sent me into a depressive state.
From Slate ● May 21, 2019
In 2013, three members of the household staff sued to recover back wages, claiming that Mercer had failed to pay overtime, as promised, and that he had deducted pay as punishment for poor work.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 17, 2017
Then it occurred to Ivan Mironov that he knew a landowner—Sventizky; he had worked on his estate, and Sventizky, when paying him off, had deducted one rouble and a half for a broken tool.
From The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy, Count
