VERB
- write something fluently, and without hesitation
- cancel (a debt)
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concede the loss or worthlessness of something or somebody
write it off as a loss -
reduce the estimated value of something
For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer
How To Use write off In A Sentence
- Yet those who might write off the Commonwealth and European medallist have short memories.
- You write off the English at your peril. The Sun
- Rather than finding the deserters, the army tends simply to write off the missing soldiers and dismiss them in their absence.
- The first you might be able to write off as political practicalism but the latter has no excuse. Firedoglake » Al Gore’s Evolution on Same-Sex Marriage
- And you dare not write off people who pen moaning letters to parish newsletters or local papers as cantankerous curmudgeons.
- You really cannot write off a football club that has made an art form of hanging on. Times, Sunday Times
- The World Bank is being urged to write off debts from developing countries.
- You really cannot write off a football club that has made an art form of hanging on. Times, Sunday Times
- Those who write off the oil and gas industry ignore all this at their peril. Times, Sunday Times
- Because my car is an L reg 1992, it has now been classed as a write off.
