"writedown" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: writedowns [plural]
Etymology: Deverbal from write down. Etymology templates: {{deverbal|en|write down}} Deverbal from write down Head templates: {{en-noun}} writedown (plural writedowns)
  1. (accounting) An adjustment; a precise amount adjusted by an act of writing down or entering an asset and its value; a reduction of an asset, written down or otherwise recorded as such. Categories (topical): Accounting Translations (adjustment; precise amount adjusted by an act of writing down an asset): Abschreibung [feminine] (German), части́чное списа́ние (častíčnoje spisánije) [neuter] (Russian)

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