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Write off   /raɪt ɔf/   Listen
Write off

verb
1.
Concede the loss or worthlessness of something or somebody.
2.
Write something fluently, and without hesitation.
3.
Cancel (a debt).
4.
Reduce the estimated value of something.  Synonyms: expense, write down.






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"Write off" Quotes from Famous Books



... life to work, which he never thought entirely satisfactory, although he did his duty without a word of complaint. Once, when advising Taylor to trust rather to literature than to Government employment, he remarked, 'You may write off the first joints of your fingers for them, and then you may write off the second joints, and all that they will say of you is, "What a remarkably short-fingered man!"'[42] But he had far too much self-respect to grumble at the inevitable results ...
— The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. - A Judge of the High Court of Justice • Sir Leslie Stephen

... might dismiss all anxiety on that score from his mind. Steggars hereat got more furious than before, and intimated plainly the course he should feel it his duty to pursue—viz. that, if the papers in question were not given up to him as he desired, he should at once write off to his late employer, Mr. Parkinson, and acknowledge how much more he (Steggars) had wronged that gentleman and his clients, than he supposed of. Old Quirk very feelingly represented to him that he was at liberty to do anything that he thought calculated to relieve his excited feelings: ...
— Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. • Samuel Warren



Words linked to "Write off" :   indite, compose, write down, write, write-off, depreciate, acknowledge, expense, strike down, admit, pen, cancel



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