| 单词 | to write off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto write off to write off 1. ΚΠ 1635 R. Dafforne Merchants Mirrour 14 Suppose the charges that you did at the first sending were writ off from his above-named Roan account, unto his account Currant. 1682 J. Scarlett Stile of Exchanges 107 To send the..Bill to the House of the Acceptant, and desire him to order that the Value be write of in Bank. 1751 W. Beawes Lex Mercatoria Rediviva 363 Write off from my Bank Book, one hundred and fifty-seven Pounds. 1810 T. Mortimer Gen. Dict. Commerce, Trade, & Manuf. at Bank One of the clerks..writes off the sum required. b. transitive. Finance. To cancel the record of (a bad debt); to acknowledge the loss of or failure to recover (an asset). Also (often with against), with reference to the reduction of one's taxable income equivalent to the value of certain allowed losses. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > cancelling due balance or debt to write off1815 to cover into the Treasury1868 1815 H. G. Hilbers Statement 43 I should write off the loss, but I never could prevail upon myself to give him the bitter reflection of having thus calumniated me, and the £3,911. 0s. 2d. always remained open upon the books. 1891 Law Times 90 283/2 The company wrote off the loss as a bad debt. 1927 Jrnl. Accountancy Mar. 177 If the picture is a failure and does not earn out the advance the distributor may have to write off the loss. 1978 Time 4 Dec. 74/1 Shelters enable people to generate paper losses to write off against their regular income, thus shielding their cash from the full bite of the IRS. 1992 Sky Mag. (Delta Airlines) Dec. 95/2 When your income exceeds $150,000, you can write off your losses only against..your rental income. 2010 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 Oct. c7/2 Delinquencies are loans that may be written off in the future. 2. a. To compose and send a letter or similar communication. Usually followed by a prepositional phrase introduced by to, indicating the recipient. Cf. earlier to write over 2 at Phrasal verbs. (a) intransitive. ΚΠ 1751 J. Crump Reply D. Molloy's Libel 4 On the Publication of Molloy's Libel, on Tuesday the 4th of December, I wrote off to London. My Letters of said Date did not arrive there until the 19th of said Month. 1772 J. Gough tr. J. M. B. de la M. Guyon Life Lady Guion II. ii. xv. 69 Our adversaries immediately writ off to Paris. A hundred ridiculous stories were circulated about this journey; comedies were acted on it, things invented at pleasure, and as false as any in the world could be. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xv He wrote off to Frank at Whitehall. 1866 C. J. Lever Sir Brook Fossbrooke II. 283 I..have written off to Tom Lendrick to come over here with his sister. 1944 M. Irwin Young Bess (1956) xvii. 183 [He] wrote off to Jane's parents to have her returned to his care and his mother's chaperonage. 2020 @HRedpigs 5 May in twitter.com (accessed 11 May 2021) I wanted to be a medic, I wrote off to the @RoyalNavy, @BritishArmy, and @RoyalAirForce, the RN wrote back first. (b) transitive. ΚΠ 1847 Punch 16 Oct. 147/1 What does Mrs. Punch do—unbeknownst to her lord and master—but write off a letter to X. Y. Z., care of the bookmaker, Haymarket. 1956 J. Kerouac Let. 5 Jan. in Sel. Lett. 1940–56 (1995) 535 Just wrote off my four letters to the district rangers up in Wash. Applying for the fire-spotting jobs. 2006 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 29 Oct. 20 After writing off letters to lots of actors he finally got sponsorship from Silence of the Lambs Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins. b. intransitive. With for. To request (something) by mail; to send off a mail-order request for. ΚΠ 1862 Family Friend Midsummer 472/1 I have written off for a post-chaise. 1894 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 5 July 4/7 I saw there an account of the cure of a young girl who had been cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. I wrote off for a box. 1968 Times 11 Dec. 7/6 To catch the Christmas post you must write off for a catalogue. 2000 Coventry Evening Tel. (Nexis) 5 Dec. 30 If you like this recipe and would like to try others, why not write off for a free copy of the ‘Cooking With Lyle’ or ‘Icing Made Easy’ booklets. 3. transitive. To compose (a written text, as a letter, a poem, etc.) with speed, haste, or great facility. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] > compose hastily scribble1576 palter1588 to throw together1646 dash1726 dash off, out1786 to run off1809 to strike off1821 to write off1841 1841 S. Warren Ten Thousand a-Year III. iv. 171 Kate..wrote off..a heart-rending letter to good old Lady Stratton. 1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip II. xii. 279 Philip was writing off at home, in his inn, one of his grand tirades, dated ‘Paris, Thursday’—so as to be in time, you understand, for the post of Saturday. 1919 A. Safroni-Middleton Gabrielle of Lagoon vi. 102 He sat down by the bamboo table and wrote off a poem. He was so much in love that even the poem was good. 1938 C. Headlam Diary 10 Apr. in S. Ball Parl. & Politics in Age Churchill & Attlee (1999) ii. 127 There is such a spate of books nowadays about current topics... Most of them are pretty poor stuff—written off by journalists who either like or dislike dictators. 4. figurative, To dismiss (something or someone) as insignificant, worthless, or not worthy of consideration.Probably originally an extension of sense 1. a. transitive. With complement introduced by as, indicating how the person or thing in question is viewed. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] fordita800 forheedc1275 forget1297 to let out ofa1300 spele1338 to go beside ——a1382 waivec1400 remiss?a1425 to go by ——?c1450 misknowledge?a1475 misknow1483 misken1494 to go besides ——1530 to let pass1530 unregard1545 unmind1562 overlook1570 mislippen1581 suspend1581 omit1589 blanch1605 to blow off1631 disregard1641 to pass with ——1641 to give (a person or thing) the go-by1654 prescind1654 nihilify1656 proscribe1680 unnotice1776 ignore1795 to close one's mind1797 cushion1818 to leave out in the cold1839 overslaugh1846 unheed1847 to write off1861 to look through ——1894 scrub1943 the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > dismiss from consideration forheedc1275 sequesterc1380 forlaya1400 to lay awaya1400 to put, set or lay byc1425 to lay by1439 to lay asidec1440 to set, lay, put apart1477 bar1481 to lay apart1526 to throw out1576 disclude1586 to fling aside1587 to fling away1587 exclude1593 daff1598 to throw by1644 eliminate1850 to write off1861 to filter out1934 slam-dunk1975 1861 Belfast News-let. 2 Feb. It is no longer the subtle schemer we have to guard against, but him and the daring crowd, who set truth at defiance or write it off as folly. 1939 Fortune Nov. 94/1 The way in which the broadcasters scooped the newspapers on the Athenia sinking might be written off as beginner's luck. 1963 L. MacNeice Var Parable (1965) i. 21 A suspension of antipathy towards its author's attitude will give weight to what otherwise might be written off as whimsical. 2002 Independent 25 Mar. 8/2 It is easy to write him off as a boring, grey bank manager. b. transitive. Without complement. ΚΠ 1913 Daily Mail 3 Nov. 6/4 ‘Of course, one has to take the pot-luck every time; but I've always had the luck so far.’..He deliberately placed the possibility of the ‘pot’ part in the background or wrote it off completely in his optimism. 1963 Times 16 Feb. 9/3 The campaign cannot be written off because of the hamfistedness of its beginnings. 1998 Girls' Life Oct. 36/2 From the title of this film, we thought it might be a real snoozer. But don't be so fast to write it off. 2013 T. Creed Redstone Station iv. 27 Who are we to write off a young bloke? 5. a. transitive. colloquial (originally Air Force slang). To damage (something) beyond repair; to wreck, destroy; (now usually) to leave (a vehicle) so damaged as to be beyond repair or not worth repairing.Originating in the slang of the Royal Flying Corps and the Australian Flying Corps during the First World War (1914–18).Not in common use in the United States. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] > beyond repair (a car, etc.) total1895 to write off1919 scuttle1941 cream1972 1919 R. H. Reece Night Bombing with Bedouins vi. 90 But as a pilot I was a complete failure; I ‘wrote off’ several machines and in my last crash I nearly ‘wrote off’ myself. 1942 N. Balchin Darkness falls from Air ii. 44 They seemed to be dropping a hell of a lot of stuff... I saw next morning that they'd written off a pub in Notting Hill. 1973 C. Bonington Next Horizon xi. 166 She had crashed the car twice, writing it off completely on the second occasion. 2020 Taranaki (N.Z.) Daily News (Nexis) 21 Aug. 4 A drink-driver mounted the footpath and clipped a power box before crossing a New Plymouth intersection and smashing into a brick wall, writing off his car. b. transitive (reflexive). slang (originally and chiefly Australian). To get very drunk; spec. to incapacitate oneself with a hangover. ΚΠ 1970 J. Hibberd White with Wire Wheels in A. Buzo et al. Plays 219 Boy, am I going to write myself off tonight! 2000 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 23 Apr. 57 Toowoomba only trained twice a week, so I'd go out on the town and write myself off. 2018 Border Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 30 Nov. He was drinking every day pretty much, he'd write himself off on weekends. < as lemmas |
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