Definition of "write-offs" []

• Plural form of write-off. (noun)

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• "Yet Harry Greene, director of credit in the personal and business banking division at Standard Bank — the largest by assets in South Africa — says, "Given the economic downturn, any saving (s) through lower write-offs has yet to be demonstrated.""
• "New adventures, lazy afternoons on a tropical isle, airfares for tax write-offs."
• "Instead of dealing with the problem and ring-fencing these assets or selling them to the government a plan which was considered and eventually rejected in favor of capital infusions, the banks took write-offs but held on to many of the loans."