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write off
verb
1. concede the loss or worthlessness of something or somebody (Freq. 2)
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write it off as a loss

• Hypernyms: ↑admit, ↑acknowledge
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s somebody

2. write something fluently, and without hesitation (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms: ↑write, ↑compose, ↑pen, ↑indite
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

3. cancel (a debt)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑write-off
• Hypernyms: ↑cancel, ↑strike down
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

4. reduce the estimated value of something
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For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer

• Syn: ↑expense, ↑write down
• Derivationally related forms: ↑write-down (for: ↑write down), ↑write-off
• Hypernyms: ↑depreciate
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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write off [phrasal verb]
1 write (something) off or write off (something)
1 a : to say officially that (money that is owed to you) will not be paid or does not need to be paid

The government has agreed to write off the debt.

The bank has written off the loan. [=has officially said that the money for the loan is lost because the loan will not be repaid]

1 b : to take away (an amount) from the total amount that is used to calculate taxes

You might be able to write off [=deduct] the cost of the computer on your taxes.

2 write (someone or something) off or write off (someone or something) : to consider (someone or something) to be lost, hopeless, unimportant, etc.

I had written off [=given up on] college because I couldn't afford to pay tuition.

I wrote her off as a friend. [=I decided that she was no longer my friend]

I wouldn't write off [=dismiss] the team just yet. The season still has a long way to go.

3 write off for (something) chiefly Brit : to make a request for (something) by sending a letter

She wrote off for [=sent away for] a free sample.

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Main Entry: ↑write

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ˌwrite ˈoff/aˈway (to sb/sth) (for sth) derived
to write to an organization or a company, usually in order to ask them to send you sth
Syn: ↑send off

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I've written off for the catalogue.

Main entry: ↑writederived

Useful english dictionary. 2012.