write up
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[edit]Verb
[edit]write up (third-person singular simple present writes up, present participle writing up, simple past wrote up, past participle written up) (transitive)
- 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.
- To produce by writing.
- Synonyms: write down, record, transcribe
- The supervisor wrote up the personnel report about him.
- To document officially the faults, offenses, or wrongdoing of.
- Synonym: write down
- His supervisor wrote him up after their last argument.
- See also: cite
- To write about positively; to praise in writing.
- Antonym: write down
- The paper wrote up the team's prospects.
- See also: talk up
- (transitive, accounting) To make an upward adjustment in the value of an asset.
- Antonyms: write down, devalue
- (philately) To annotate a stamp album page with details about the stamp, such as die used or colour variety.
Usage notes
[edit]- In the sense "produce by writing", 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.