Complement and Deduction

complement

A word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction.
A complete number or quantity.
- usage: "a full complement"
Number needed to make up a whole force.
- usage: "a full complement of workers"
- synonyms: full complement
Something added to complete or embellish or make perfect.
- usage: "a fine wine is a perfect complement to the dinner"; "wild rice was served as an accompaniment to the main dish"
- synonyms: accompaniment
One of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response.
Either of two parts that mutually complete each other.

Make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to.
- usage: "I need some pepper to complement the sweet touch in the soup"

(v.t.) To supply a lack; to supplement.
(v.t.) The whole working force of a vessel.
(v.t.) Something added for ornamentation; an accessory.
(v.t.) To compliment.
(v.t.) A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.
(v.t.) A compliment.
(v.t.) Full quantity, number or amount; a complete set; completeness.
(v.t.) The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.
(v.t.) That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.
(v.t.) That which is required to supply a deficiency or to complete a symmetrical whole.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

deduction

A reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket.
- synonyms: tax write-off, tax deduction
An amount or percentage deducted.
- synonyms: discount
Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied. )
- usage: "his resignation had political implications"
- synonyms: entailment, implication
Reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect.
- synonyms: deductive reasoning, synthesis
The act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole. )
- usage: "he complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks"
- synonyms: subtraction
The act of reducing the selling price of merchandise.
- synonyms: discount, price reduction

(n.) That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion.
(n.) That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent.
(n.) Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend.
(n.) Act or process of deducing or inferring.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Deduction is an expense that is allowable as a reduction of gross taxable income by the IRS e. G., charity donations.