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n. (write-off English)
Usage examples of "write-offs".
New fancy cars for the Red Cross, inflated salaries for the executives of the Cancer Fund, tax write-offs for Jerry Lewis.
There were other, more subtle benefits, too, involving tax write-offs and untaxable trades for existing, surplus museum stock.
Some of the shelters and write-offs we set up have been challenged by the IRS.
Mitch created two very questionable write-offs that lowered it to $320,000.
Because MITI directs policy, because we can issue write-offs in certain areas and not in others, because we can authorize sizable payouts as insurance against bad debt trade contracts, we can totally control the trading companies.
Most of the old families have given up, sold out to rich doctors and lawyers who use the orchards for tax write-offs and run them down—capped irrigation lines, no pruning or fertilizing.