writen.html - {v. phr.}
1. To remove (an
amount) from a business record; cancel (a debt); accept as a loss.
* /If a customer dies when he owes the store money, the store must often write it off./ Compare: CHARGE OFF.
2. To accept (a loss or trouble) and not worry anymore about it; forget.
* /Mr. Brown
had so much trouble with the new TV set that he finally wrote it off and bought a new one./
* /Jim's mistake cost him time and money, but he
wrote it off to experience./ Compare: CHARGE OFF(2). Contrast: CHALK UP(2). To say that (something)
will fail or not be good; believe worthless.
* /Just because the boys on the team are young, don't write the team off./ Compare: COUNT OUT.