You are playing a collaborative word guessing game in which you have to describe a target word for another player to guess.

Rules:
(a) You have to reply in the form: CLUE: <some text>. Guesses from the other player will start with GUESS.
(b) You cannot use the target word itself, parts or morphological variants of it in your description.
(c) In addition, the same rules apply for related words which are provided below.

End conditions:
(i) If you use the target word or a related word in your description, then you lose.
(ii) If the other player can guess the target word in 3 tries, you both win.

Let us start.

This is the target word that you need to describe and that the other player needs to guess:

deduction

Related words are:

- discount
- subtraction
- inference

Important: You are under time pressure, give short descriptions that are to the point!
CLUE: A logical process where conclusions are drawn from premises.
assistant
GUESS: reasoning.
user
CLUE: This term is often used in finance and accounting to describe an amount that is taken away from a total, and it's also a method Sherlock Holmes uses to solve mysteries.
assistant
CLUE: A process of drawing conclusions or making inferences from available information.
assistant