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Maskarvaibhav Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

being written off

some were close to being written off.

can some one explain this, what is the meaning of "being written off."
  

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write off: [TRANSITIVE] to decide that someone or something will not succeed and so to stop giving them your attention and energy He thought the teachers had written him off .

  • write off: [TRANSITIVE] to decide that someone or something will not succeed and so to stop giving them your attention and energy He thought the teachers had written him off .
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write off:

[TRANSITIVE] to decide that someone or something will not succeed and so to stop giving them your attention and energy
He thought the teachers had written him off.
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