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subtract

verb as in take away

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Money deposited into those accounts is subtracted from your gross income for the year, reducing your tax bill or increasing your refund.

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Chips such as those sold by Nvidia make up the bulk of AI spending, but most are imported and must be subtracted from total investment to arrive at the impact on domestic production.

It’s usually through withholdings that are automatically subtracted from a paycheck.

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“Exports are projected to subtract from growth over the next two years.”

Trivariate Research’s Adam Parker is a fan of focusing on gross margins, which are calculated by taking a company’s revenue and subtracting cost of sales and dividing that by revenue.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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