write in

To add missing information to a form or other document by writing it.

• Write in your name here.
• She wrote her address in the empty box.
• Have you written in all the missing numbers?

How to use it: write in something / write something in (Write your phone number in below your name.)

Similar words: fill in, enter

Common phrases: write in your name, write something in

To send a letter or message to an organization, newspaper, or programme.

• Please write in with your questions.
• A reader wrote in to complain about the article.
• Have many listeners written in this week?

How to use it: write in to someone/something (Several readers wrote in to the newspaper.); write in with something (You can write in with your questions.)

Similar words: send a letter

Common phrases: write in to someone, write in with questions

To vote for someone whose name is not printed on the voting paper by adding their name yourself.

• You can write in another candidate.
• She wrote in her own name for mayor.
• How many voters wrote him in?

How to use it: write in someone / write someone in (Some voters wrote their neighbor in as a candidate.)

Common phrases: write in a candidate, write someone in