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Discover LudwigThe phrase "writes off" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in financial contexts to indicate the cancellation of a debt or the recognition that an asset has lost its value. Example: "The company decided to write off the bad debt from last year’s accounts receivable."
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He writes off Europe as "rich but wimpy" yet makes no attempt to justify it.
She is properly hilarious about Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan whom she writes off as "a crybaby".
You can't be yourself with a partner who writes off your feelings.
In amortization, a business writes off, as a loss, the cost of buying assets against profits.
Amazon writes off $170m on unsold Fire Phones Amazon Fire Phone review: setting nothing ablaze.
In "Hammerklavier," a woman writes off a man because he doesn't care for her necklace.
For its part, CTN writes off Burly Bear as a mere "programming distributor".
"The theory that if the company writes off $2 billion it should see its stock price up $1 and if it writes off $6 billion the stock should jump $3 is not one I can embrace".
A meeting at almost any other time disturbs the flow of work and writes off a part of the day.
11 December Lloyds TSB writes off £200m as a result of the US sub-prime mortgage crisis.
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[C15.] Broadcaster Writes Off $1.5 Billion British Sky Broadcasting, the satellite television broadcaster, said it was writing off its $1.5 billion investment in the Kirch Group because it had no evidence that Kirch could make good on its commitments.
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