write down
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See also: writedown and write-down
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Verb[edit]
write down (third-person singular simple present writes down, present participle writing down, simple past wrote down, past participle written down)
- Used other than as an idiom: see write, down.
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2011, Ada Leverson, Love's Shadow: The Bloomsbury Group:
- Good heavens, I can't write down to the level of the vulgar public!
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- (transitive) To set (something) down in writing; to record something.
- (transitive) To write (something) in a simple or condescending style.
- (transitive, accounting) To make a downward adjustment in the value of an asset.
Translations[edit]
to set something down in writing
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to make a downward adjustment in the value of an asset
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