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单词 written-off
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written-off

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C1. With prepositions, forming adjectives (and occasionally nouns) as written-about, written-of, written-on, written-to.
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society > communication > correspondence > sending items > [noun] > addressing letter > addressee
superscription1464
written-to1747
addressee1794
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xix. 117 [The letter] was written..On one knee, kneeling with the other. Not from reverence to the written-to, however.
1832 New Monthly Mag. 34 277 Medical opinion as to the essence of this much thought of, and much talked of, and much written about malady [sc. cholera], is threefold.
1886 Amer. Lancet Apr. 121/2 The excuse and justification..for this paper upon a much written-of subject, is that it is a compilation of recorded facts.
1933 New Yorker 28 Oct. 25/3 Roosevelt, the most written-to of all Presidents, gets an average of 3,800 letters a day.
1955 E. Bowen World of Love iv. 77 The written-on blue envelope.
2006 Weekly Standard 6 Mar. Writing to Woolf (the most written-to friend in this collection), he imagines..Duncan Grant, then his lover, running off with his brother.
2010 @pawsitivlycorky 22 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 23 Mar. 2021) Oh my God. Was it necessary to tear all the written-on pages out of my notebooks?
C2. With adverbs, forming adjectives corresponding to phrasal verbs at write v. Phrasal verbs, as written-down, written-off, written out, written-up.
a. In various senses in general contexts.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [adjective] > having exhausted capacity for writing
written out1848
society > communication > journalism > journal > matter of or for journals > [adjective] > reviewed
written1890
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > [adjective] > commended or praised > in writing
written1890
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [adjective] > of financial losses
written1961
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [adjective] > wrecked
written1961
1754 S. Richardson Corr. (1804) II. 198 Your capital men..with their short written-down speeches.
1848 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 518/2 It is the written-out, illuminated creed of a solitary, independent, daring, yet devout man, which all ages have agreed to admire in Milton's poem [i.e. Paradise Lost].
1885 Puck (N.Y.) 25 Mar. 59/1 When he is written out he can still dispose of any drivel he may write.
1890 G. B. Shaw in Star 7 Mar. 2/3 The imagination of the public has undoubtedly been strongly seized by the spectacle of the much-written-up Tosca at the height of its prosperity.
1897 ‘P. Warung’ Tales Old Regime 149 Negligently-written-up records.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. xv. 355 He's had several failures in the past year... They say he's written out.
1961 Sunday Express 12 Feb. 9/2 He accuses them of..selling ‘written off’ car wrecks.
1977 Punch 31 Aug. 330/1 (cartoon) [Text on a wall plaque:] Coronation Street Memorial. Written out characters.
2002 F. Spufford Child that Bks. Built (2003) ii. 49 The tale..doesn't need pictures, it doesn't need to exist as a written-down text.
b. In financial contexts.
(a) With back, down, off, and up, designating a debt, asset, provision, etc., that has been subjected to the accountancy action, process, or adjustment expressed by the underlying phrasal verb.See to write back 2 at write v. Phrasal verbs, to write down 5 at write v. Phrasal verbs, to write off 1b at write v. Phrasal verbs, to write up 7 at write v. Phrasal verbs.
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1857 Trial Royal Brit. Bank Directors 40 All written off debts go into the assets.
1904 Economist 10 Dec. 1999/2 The written-down assets of the company, exclusive of the patents and goodwill,..are to-day £1,725,742.
1966 Financial Times of Canada 17 Oct. 23/2 If written-up assets..are eliminated..the book equity shrinks to $45 million.
1976 Times 23 June 21/1 Without written-back provisions to enable a repeat of 1975's £2.4m profit.., that division turned in £1.6m.
2011 A. Freytag & G. Pehnelt in A. Freytag et al. Securing Global Econ. vi. 89 Since the written-off debt has not been serviced, debt relief does not free resources.
(b)
written-down value n. Accounting the nominal value of an asset, after taking into account reductions resulting from factors such as a fall in price, depreciation, obsolescence, a previous overvaluation, etc. (abbreviated WDV).
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > values in specific terms
book value1838
carrying value1864
written-down value1893
cash-value1898
asset value1902
resale value1913
points value1936
point value1939
shareholder value1965
1893 Age (Melbourne) 25 Aug. 6/3 You have assumed the value when the commissioners took charge was the accurate written down value, and then you say that the stock ought to have been taken as new, and written down afterwards?
1986 R. Proctor Finance for Perplexed Executive ii. 32 The annual depreciation charge..is calculated by dividing the historical cost by the useful life. This produces an annual depreciation charge of £2k. So, one year after acquisition, the machine [acquired for £10k] will have a ‘written-down value’ (WDV) in the firm's accounting records of £8k.
2011 Lincs. Echo (Nexis) 27 July 14 If you donate used assets that have qualified for plant or machinery allowances to a qualifying charity.., you may be able to claim plant and machinery allowances on any left over written-down value.
C3.
written matter n. Originally and chiefly: letters, notes, postcards, etc., that are handwritten. Later also: any written or printed document, work, etc. Cf. printed matter n. at printed adj. Compounds 1.
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1764 in Dublin Mag. May 275/1 Those franks which were used in inclosing printed publications to the country, seldom, or never, contained, any written matter in them.
1860 J. Edgar New Brunswick 34 No better plan could be devised of spreading information.., than by getting their friends..to send it to them in the shape of pamphlets, or any other printed or written matter.
1922 L. V. Rule Pioneering in Masonry xx. 238 Great amounts of written matter..went up in the flames.
2021 Hexham Courant (Nexis) 19 June I spent half a century working on newspapers and still can't break the habit of looking for mistakes in any piece of written matter that comes my way.
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