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What does write off mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word write off? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (accounting) To reduce an asset's book value to zero.
  2. (accounting) To record an expenditure as an expense.
  3. (accounting) To remove a portion of a debt or an amount of an account owed, counting it as a loss (as a gesture of goodwill for example).
  4. (accounting) To record a notional expense such as amortization or depreciation.
  5. Figuratively, to assign a low value to something.
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At the meeting, Ms Blears had refused to write off the debt the PCT owes to the Government.
You never can write off a team quarterbacked by Brett Favre, but you have to wonder whether Green Bay's window of opportunity is closing.
Indeed I don't think any of us emerged with any credit on a day which we will have to write off as a bad experience all round.
The critics and the knockers were out in force to quickly write off their chances.
Yet those who might write off the Commonwealth and European medallist have short memories.
And you dare not write off people who pen moaning letters to parish newsletters or local papers as cantankerous curmudgeons.

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