write-off
Nouns
- (n) (accounting) reduction in the book value of an asset write-down,
- (n) the act of cancelling from an account a bad debt or a worthless asset
Verbs
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(v) concede the loss or worthlessness of something or somebody
- write it off as a loss
- (v) write something fluently, and without hesitation
- (v) cancel (a debt)
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(v) reduce the estimated value of something
- For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer