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write-off Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 a period of time during which you fail to achieve anything:
- Yesterday was a complete write-off as far as work is concerned.
1 a vehicle that is too damaged to be worth repairing:
- She wasn't hurt, but the car's a complete write-off.
2 a change in a company's accounts when it has lost money:
- After write-offs, taxes, and government transfers were deducted, the phone company found itself deeply in debt.
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:
- asset/bad-debt/goodwill write-offs The credit card company projected that bad-debt write-offs would be $4.9 billion.
- charitable/tax write-offs
4 a vehicle that is too damaged to repair:
- Her car is a complete write-off.

Leaseholders often explicitly employed the threat of not renewing the contract in order to secure a rent write-off.
These farms can write-off farm losses especially if they are offset by high off-farm income.
Then one of his men brought news that the new car had gone off the road into a ravine and was a write-off.
After their courses, they will be protected by the provisions for deferment of repayments and write-off of the debt if their income is low.
What is the rate of obsolescence, the rate of write-off?
They are unpopular even before the spectacle of a flotation fiasco doomed to partial or total failure despite the hidden write-off of £5·5 billion debt.
Debt write-off, project aid and technological assistance have to be geared tightly towards movement to a market economy.
The new owners were given a debt write-off worth £5 billion and a green dowry worth £1.5 billion.