- present participle of subtract.
subtracting
Example Sentences
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Gross profit is revenue without subtracting the cost of production expenses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Then it's the net goal score - taking the goals in favour, and subtracting the goals against.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
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
The NAV represents the fair value of the underlying assets, calculated by subtracting the fund’s liabilities from its total assets and dividing the remainder by the number of outstanding shares.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 25, 2026
Over and over I tried to subtract the numbers, but I didn’t want to do it on paper because I didn’t want Mom and Dad to know I was subtracting, so it was hard.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
