write off

descartar, dar por perdido

Decidir que alguien o algo tiene poco valor o ninguna posibilidad de éxito.

En inglés sencillo: To decide that someone or something has little value or no chance of success.

• Do not write her off yet.
• Everyone wrote off our team before we won the final.
• He had written the idea off as too expensive.

Cómo se usa: write someone/something off as something (Critics wrote the young singer off as a failure.)

Sinónimos: dismiss, discount

Expresiones frecuentes: write off someone, write off their chances

condonar, cancelar

Dejar de esperar que se pague una deuda y registrarla como pérdida.

En inglés sencillo: To stop expecting payment of money owed and record it as a loss.

• The bank wrote off his debt.
• They agreed to write off part of the unpaid bill.
• Will the charity ask lenders to write these loans off?

Cómo se usa: write off something (The bank wrote off half of her debt.)

Sinónimos: cancel, forgive

Expresiones frecuentes: write off a debt, write off unpaid loans

deducir, contabilizar como gasto

Anotar un desembolso como gasto de la empresa, lo que a menudo reduce los impuestos.

En inglés sencillo: To record money spent as a business cost, often reducing the tax you pay.

• You can write off business expenses.
• He wrote off the hotel bill as a travel expense.
• Can we write this purchase off against our taxes?

Cómo se usa: write something off as something (She wrote the train fare off as a business expense.)

Sinónimos: expense, deduct

Expresiones frecuentes: write off travel costs, write off business expenses

declarar siniestro total

Considerar algo dañado una pérdida total porque repararlo costaría demasiado.

En inglés sencillo: To decide that something damaged would cost too much to repair and treat it as a complete loss.

• The crash wrote off my car.
• The insurance company has written off the damaged van.
• Will they write it off or pay for repairs?

Cómo se usa: write something off (The insurer wrote our van off after the accident.)

Sinónimos: total

Expresiones frecuentes: write off a car, write off a vehicle

dar de baja

Registrar oficialmente que un bien de una empresa ya no tiene valor.

En inglés sencillo: To officially record that something owned by a business has no remaining value.

• We wrote off the old equipment.
• The accountant wrote off stock that could no longer be sold.
• Should we write this asset off completely?

Cómo se usa: write off something (The company wrote off its obsolete equipment.)

Expresiones frecuentes: write off an asset, write off obsolete stock

amortizar

Registrar como gasto la pérdida de valor de un bien con el tiempo, sin pagar dinero en ese momento.

En inglés sencillo: To record a cost as something loses value over time, without spending money at that moment.

• We write off depreciation every year.
• The firm wrote off part of the machine’s cost through depreciation.
• How much will you write off for amortization this year?

Cómo se usa: write off something over a period (We write off the equipment cost over five years.)

Sinónimos: depreciate, amortize

Expresiones frecuentes: write off depreciation, write off annual amortization