subtracting

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The numbers come from very different sources: ADP’s data draws on the company’s internal figures on how many roles its huge pool of business customers are adding or subtracting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

At the same time, more types of companies are adding jobs rather than subtracting them.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

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.

From Barron's • Nov. 17, 2025

Even though second-quarter operational cash flows rose by 32% from 2024, free cash flow, after subtracting capex, declined by 19%.

From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025

First Momma started writing in a notebook and adding things up and subtracting things, then Dad and Joey and Rufus and me started driving all over Flint buying things for the Brown Bomber.

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis