write up

See also: write-up and writeup

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: rīt′ ŭp′
• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaɪ̯t ˌʌp/

  (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌɪ̯t ˌʌp/

  (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌi̯t ˌʌp/, /ˈɹəi̯t ˌʌp/

• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑe̯t ˌɐp/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈɾaɪ̯ʈ ˌəp/, /ˈɾajʈ ˌəp/
• Hyphenation: write up

Verb

write up (third-person singular simple present writes up, present participle writing up, simple past wrote up or (archaic) writ up, past participle written up or (archaic) writ up or (obsolete) ywriten up)(transitive)

2. To produce by writing.

   Synonyms: write down, record, transcribe

   The supervisor wrote up the personnel report about him.

3. To document officially the faults, offenses, or wrongdoing of.

   Synonym: write down

   Near-synonym: cite

   His supervisor wrote him up after their last argument.

4. To write about positively; to praise in writing.

   Antonym: write down

   Near-synonym: talk up

   The paper wrote up the team's prospects.

5. (accounting) To make an upward adjustment in the value of an asset.

   Antonyms: write down, devalue

   The company decided to write up its property assets after an independent appraisal showed their market value had increased significantly.

6. (philately) To annotate a stamp album page with details about the stamp, such as die used or colour variety.

   She carefully wrote up each stamp in her collection, noting the Scott catalog number, perforation gauge, and printing plate variety.

7. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see write,‎ up.

   I can't write up in the attic; it's too cold there in the winter and too hot there in the summer.

Usage notes

• In sense 1, this term is generally used only when the thing being written has been previously set or arranged to some extent. Thus, one can write up a report of events, minutes of a meeting, or a contract previously agreed upon orally.
• As with many pairs of phrasal verbs that contain antonymic particles (such as up and down), write up and write down can actually function as synonyms for some senses.

Translations

to produce by writing

• Bulgarian: запи́свам (bg) impf (zapísvam), запи́ша (bg) pf (zapíša)
• Polish: rozpisywać impf, rozpisać (pl) pf, napisać (pl) pf, spisywać (pl) impf, spisać (pl) pf, sporządzać (pl) impf, sporządzić (pl) pf
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

to document officially the faults, offenses or wrongdoing of

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can

to write about positively

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can

accounting: to make an upward adjustment in the value of an asset

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can

philately: to annotate a stamp album page with details

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Polish: sporządzić (pl) pf, sporządzać (pl) impf
• Spanish: denunciar (es), disciplinar (es), reportar (es)

Further reading

• “write up”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.