write off

Meaning

1. 1

   write off / away (to sb / sth) (for sth)

   to write to an organization or a company, usually in order to ask them to send you sth

   I've written off for the catalogue.

2. 2

   write sb / sth off (as sth)

   to decide that sb / sth is a failure or not worth paying any attention to

3. 3

   write sth off

   to cancel a debt; to recognize that sth is a failure, has no value, etc.

   to write off a debt / an investment

4. 4

   write sth offBritish

   to damage sth, especially a vehicle, so badly that it cannot be repaired

In the movies · 4

• Paper trail bruh For tax write offFast X2023
• HAD WRITTEN OFF AS KIND OF A PIPE DREAM HAD HAPPENED.The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz2014
• Well, it's something that up to now has been written off as untreatable.Something the Lord Made2004
• That would be easier, right? Then you could write him off.To the Bone2017
• we write it off that we stopped a riot.Felon2008
• ...for a future gig, so I could make it a tax write-off.Ocean's Eleven2001
• 'Cause I swear to God, man, I'll fuckin' write you off like that.SLC Punk1998
• I'll even give you a receipt. You can write it off.Zero Effect1998

Learn it in full scenes

• SLC Punk1998
  • Bob Fears the Needle
  • Steven Calls Out His Parents
  • A Graduate Rants About Posers

From the same entry

• be written all over face
• have written all over it
• nothing to write home about
• that's all she wrote
• not worth the paper it's written on
• write away
• write back
• write down
• write in
• write in
• write into
• write out