English-French translations for subtraction

• soustraction
  Je puis vous dire à présent que la Commission soutiendra cet ensemble d’amendements s’ils sont adoptés dans leur intégralité et sans ajout ni soustraction. I should say now that the Commission could support such a package of amendments if it is voted through in its entirety and without any additions or subtractions.

Definition of subtraction

• The process of subtracting a number from another
• The removal of something

Examples

• The teacher has set us ten subtractions to do by tomorrow.
• The subtraction of the wealth from the economy will result in recession.

Related words

• subtractional
• subtraction sum
• vector subtraction