WRITE OFF


Meaning of WRITE OFF in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ transitive verb ]

Date: 1889

1. : to eliminate (an asset) from the books : enter as a loss or expense

write off a bad loan

2. : to regard or concede to be lost

most were content to write off 1979 and look optimistically ahead — Money

also : dismiss

was written off as an expatriate highbrow — Brendan Gill

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.