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write off

/rahyt-awf, -of/US // ˈraɪtˌɔf, -ˌɒf //

注销,核销,销账,销帐

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cancellation from the accounts as a loss.
    • : an uncollectable account.
    • : a reduction in book value; depreciation.
    • : Informal. a person or thing that is given up as hopeless or pointless: Joe's college career is a write-off.

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Examples

  • Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

  • A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

  • At some point during his busy schedule, Israel found the time to write a book, titled The Global War on Morris.

  • My publisher had asked, “If you wanted to write another book, what would you want to write about?”

  • You write a lot about how you were a jerk or a snob when it came to comedy or film.

  • Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.

  • I've never had time to write home about it, for I felt that it required a dissertation in itself to do it justice.

  • A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

  • The other is the new theory: that the Bible is the work of many men whom God had inspired to speak or write the truth.

  • Whatever you do, don't write a word to that Carr friend of yours; he's as sharp as a two-edged sword.