Meaning & use
minus
Reduced by the subtraction of; used to indicate that one quantity is taken away from another.
See it in a sentence
Ten minus three leaves seven.
The final price, minus the discount, came to just twenty dollars.
A note on using this word
Minus also works informally as an adjective meaning lacking something, as in 'the team played minus its captain.'
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Another way to use it
2. adjective
Lacking or without a particular thing.
He arrived at the meeting minus the report he was supposed to present.
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