Write Back Sth Meaning Accept Debt Loan Paid

Meaning: to accept that a debt or loan won't be paid back, or that an investment has been lost

• write sth off We won't get the money back, so we'll have to write it off as a bad debt.
  
  
• write off sth After accepting that the business was going to fail, they wrote off their investment.
  
  

Nouns often used as objects with write off (1): debt, loan, investment, shares, stocks