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 Translation for 'write off' from English to Danish
VERB   to write off | wrote off | written off
writing off | writes off
SYNO to expense | to write down | to write off
to write offat afskrive
Partial Matches
to writeat skrive
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off {adv}af
off-white {adj}råhvid
to tick offat krydse af
off-white {adj}offwhite
to tick offat sætte flueben
to show offat prale
to take offat tage af
to show offat blære sig
day offfridag {fk}
off-road vehicleterrængående køretøj {n}
to tick off sth.at hakke ngt. af
to get off [bus, train etc.]at stå af
rejseo.trafik
to turn off to the right
at dreje af til højre
to take off one's clothesat klæde sig af
to marry off (one's daughter)at bortgifte (sin datter)
off {prep} [e.g. off the coast]ud for [ofte udfor] [fx: ud for kysten]
to drop sb. off [e.g. from a vehicle]at sætte ngn. af
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Usage Examples English
  • When he was DUP leader, Peter Robinson spoke of not being "prepared to write off over 40 per cent of our population as being out of reach".
  • In October 2011, Eurozone leaders also agreed on a proposal to write off 50% of Greek debt owed to private creditors, increasing the EFSF to about €1 trillion and requiring European banks to achieve 9% capitalisation to reduce the risk of contagion to other countries.
  • In one of his first moves at the IMF, Köhler joined British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown in hosting a gathering of anti-poverty activists to discuss an international campaign to write off billions of dollars in debts that developing nations owe the IMF, World Bank and other government creditors.
  • The following list includes occurrences that led to at least one fatality, resulted in a write-off of the aircraft involved, or both.
  • Much of the interest on the debt was suspended and deferred in a refinancing which saw no write off – the balance was to be paid using tolls.

  • 8 billion write off due to "serious accounting improprieties" committed by Autonomy management prior to the acquisition.
  • Richard's car was a write-off as another car swerved and braked hard.
  • In March 2007, Poland and Nicaragua signed an agreement to write off 30.6 million dollars which was borrowed by the Nicaraguan government in the 1980s.
  • In March 2019, Roberts was a cosponsor of a bipartisan bill to undo a drafting error in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that mandated stores and restaurants to have to write off the costs of renovations over the course of 39 years via authorizing businesses to immediately deduct the entirety of costs of renovations.
  • Then, in October 2004, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank said they would write off $2 billion in debt—almost half Madagascar's total debt.

  • Anti-abortion activists opposed the measure, claiming it restricted their ability to use bankruptcy courts to write off court fines.
  • The IMF agreed to write off half Madagascar's debt in 2004 under the Ravalomanana administration.
  • The last aircraft write-off occurred in 2022, when Korean Air Flight 631 overran the runway at Mactan–Cebu International Airport while attempting to land under poor weather conditions.
  • Jackson was content to write off Ogham inscriptions as inherently unintelligible.
  • Sum-of-years-digits is a spent depreciation method that results in a more accelerated write-off than the straight-line method, and typically also more accelerated than the declining balance method.

  • Hamilton, displeased with this connection, responded "it's frustrating that people write [...] off because we're affiliated with or credited with or discredited with creating nu-metal and rap metal or whatever the fuck it is, which we sound nothing like."
  • Some research has also noted circumstances where the "sunk cost effect" is reversed; that is, where individuals appear irrationally eager to write off earlier investments in order to take up a new endeavor.
  • Other alternatives include seeking to restart the growth of private debt ("reflate the bubble"), or slow or stop its fall; and debt relief, which by lowering or eliminating debt stops credit from contracting (as it cannot fall below zero) and allows debt to either stabilize or grow – this has the further effect of redistributing wealth from creditors (who write off debts) to debtors (whose debts are relieved).
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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