0 a period of time during which you fail to achieve anything: --
2 a change in a company's accounts when it has lost money: --
3 an amount of money that has been lost, for example, from a bad investment or a debt that will never be paid, shown as a loss in a company's accounts: --
Coal is following the three classic stages of privatisation—write-off, sell-off and rip-off.
The powers of commanding officers of write-off were ridiculously small in comparison with the value of the equipment they held on charge.
Commercial information concerning total investment and write-off is not held centrally.
The same can be said of the financial implications for the taxpayer and the write-off of debt.
We are not opposed to any write-off of debt.
Speed is important, but so is the extent of debt write-off.
In exchange, they got a green dowry of £1.5 billion and a debt write-off totalling £5 billion.
The new owners were given a debt write-off worth £5 billion and a green dowry worth £1.5 billion.