| 单词 | write off |
| 释义 | write off 1. phrasal verb If you write off to a company or organization, you send them a letter, usually asking for something. He wrote off to the New Zealand Government for these pamphlets about life in New Zealand. [VERB PARTICLE + to] 2. phrasal verb If someone writes off a debt or an amount of money that has been spent on a project, they accept that they are never going to get the money back. [business] The committee decided to write off this debt. [VERB PARTICLE noun] He had long since written off the money. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] 3. phrasal verb If you write someone or something off, you decide that they are unimportant or useless and that they are not worth further serious attention. He is fed up with people writing him off because of his age. [VERB noun PARTICLE] His critics write him off as too cautious to succeed. [V n P + as] Most voters care more about jobs and therefore the Government can write off voters motivated by environmental issues. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] These people are difficult to write off as malingering employees. [V P n + as] 4. phrasal verb If someone writes off a vehicle, they have a crash in it and it is so badly damaged that it is not worth repairing. [British] John's written off four cars. Now he sticks to public transport. [VERB PARTICLE noun] One of Pete's friends wrote his car off there. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 5. phrasal verb If you write off a plan or project, you accept that it is not going to be successful and do not continue with it. We decided to write off the rest of the day and go shopping. [VERB PARTICLE noun] The prices were much higher. So we decided to write that off. [VERB noun PARTICLE] It's too soon to write off the whole consultation process as a failure. [V P n (not pron) as n] Don't just write it off as a waste of time. [V n P as n] 6. See also write-off See full dictionary entry for write write-off Word forms: write-offs 1. countable noun Something such as a vehicle that is a write-off has been so badly damaged in an accident that it is not worth repairing. [British] The car was a write-off, but everyone escaped unharmed. 2. countable noun A write-off is the decision by a company or government to accept that they will never recover a debt or an amount of money that has been spent on something. Mr James persuaded the banks to accept a large write-off of debt. [+ of] 3. singular noun If you describe a plan or period of time as a write-off, you mean that it has been a failure and you have achieved nothing. [informal] Today was really a bit of a write-off for me. [+ for] For him, the rest of the decade was a creative write-off. Collocations: debt write-off A lot of firms also offer assistance through special payment arrangements, charitable trusts and debt write-off schemes, depending on a customer's circumstances. The Sun The gang also persuaded 3,300 other victims to part with up to 2,000 in a crooked 'debt write-off' scheme. The Sun The company desperately needs a judgment one way or the other to clear the way for a debt write-off, enabling it to get back to making music. Times, Sunday Times |
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