Other forms: write-offs
A write-off is something too damaged to be worth repairing. The car was a write-off, declared a write-off, an insurance write-off.
The test is money rather than damage, since a car is a write-off when repairing it costs more than it is worth, which happens easily with an old one. The word also means a day that achieved nothing.
1nounwrite-offSomething too damaged to be worth repairing.
“The phone went through the washing machine and was a total write-off.”
write-off is a loss.
Deverbal from write off.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Phrasal Verbs, Repair & Damage