Usually means: Deduct expense from taxable income.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word write off:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. write off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. write-off, write off: Merriam-Webster
  3. write-off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. write-off: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. write-off, write-off, write off: Collins English Dictionary
  6. write-off, write off: Vocabulary.com
  7. Write-Off, Write-off, write-off: Wordnik
  8. write-off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. write-off, write off: Wiktionary
  10. write-off: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. write-off: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. write-off: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. write-off, write off: Dictionary.com
  14. Write-off: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. write-off, write off: Rhymezone
  16. 'Write-off' (car): Britih-American Dictionary
  17. write-off, write off: FreeDictionary.org
  18. write-off, write off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. write-off, write off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. write off: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. write-off: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Write-off: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  8. Write-Off: Investopedia
  9. write-off, write off: Legal dictionary
  10. write-off, write off: Financial dictionary
  11. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  12. WRITE-OFF: Accounting Glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. write-off, write off: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. write off: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. write off: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. write off: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See write_offs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (write off)

verb:  (accounting, transitive) To reduce the book value of (an asset) to zero.
verb:  (accounting, transitive) To record (an expenditure) as an expense.
verb:  (accounting, transitive) 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).
verb:  (accounting) To record a notional expense such as amortization or depreciation.
verb:  To treat as a write-off, a total loss, especially something damaged beyond economic repair.
verb:  (figurative, transitive) To assign a low value to (somebody or something).

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