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And even one deal would be a historic moment for a complex financial product many wrote off as extinct in Europe.

write off He wrote off three cars in a year because of his dreadful driving.

Some analysts wrote off Tuesday's blood ceremony as a stunt, suggesting demonstrators had run out of ideas.

Banks wrote off record amounts of credit card debt in the past two years as customers failed to make payments amid high unemployment.

I wrote off an account of my trip yesterday evening.

e. g. The bank wrote off one million pounds in bad debt.

The bank wrote off one million pound in bad debts.

Not bad for a market Steve Jobs once wrote off with the remark, "people don't read anymore. "

The U. S. yesterday wrote off most of Nicaragua 's debt to Washington, saying it wants to support the government's economic recovery.

Wrote off the rainy first day of the vacation.

Investors largely wrote off a jump in weekly jobless claims that was likely skewed by seasonal factors.

In November Amex wrote off 7. 6% of its portfolio, nearly doubling the write-off rate at the end of 2007.

They wrote off (to the BBC) for the special booklet.

He wrote off three letters within ten minutes.

After a hot argument, she wrote off her boyfriend.

Finally I wrote off a bad loan.

We wrote off $ 500 for depreciation of machinery.

In the 1970s many people wrote off the precursor to the World Trade Organisation.

She wrote off a poem in half an hour.

In 1994, Sony wrote off $2. 7 billion of its investment.