Once you go ahead and start, even the tiresome work of adding and subtracting figures is interesting in its way.
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Subtracting
Synonyms for "subtracting" (12 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Noun(3 words)
Strong matches (3)
Noun(3 words)
Related words (6)
Noun(6 words)
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More general
8 entriesaction verbarithmetic operationbudgeting conceptmath conceptmath operationmathematical operationoperationtransitive verb
More specific
12 entriesbinary subtractionbudget adjustmentcolumn subtractioncost reductiondeducting expensesdeducting taxesexpense deductionlong subtractionmental subtractionplace-value subtractionsubtraction methodsymbolic subtraction
Collocations
14 entriescolumn subtractionlong subtractionmental subtractionsubtracting across columnssubtracting decimalssubtracting fractionssubtracting fromsubtracting from totalsubtracting methodsubtracting numberssubtracting two from fivesubtraction factssubtraction problemsubtraction sign
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
5 entriesSample sentences
4 total sentences available.
"It is one thing to write as a poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth."
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Subtracting an odd number from an odd number will result in an even number.
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[…] she is confronted with the menacing reality of her incompetence. Which is not to say she can't do the addings and subtractings.
Source: wiktionary