write down
verb1
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see write, down.
- I can't write down in the basement; it's cold there and my fingers cramp and get stiff.
2
To produce or set (something) down in writing; to record something.
3
Ambitransitive To write (something) in a simple or condescending style.
- Good heavens, I can't write down to the level of the vulgar public!2011, Ada Leverson, Love's Shadow: The Bloomsbury Group:
4
Accounting, Business, Finance To make a downward adjustment in the value of an asset.
5
To condemn in writing; to document the faults, offenses, or wrongdoing of.
- By 1859, D. Morier Evans was exhibiting [George] Hudson as the principal character in his rogues' gallery entitled "Facts, Failures and Frauds"; and at the hands of modern economic historians he has been written down as a common swindler.1951 December, Michael Robbins, “John Francis's "History of the English Railway"”, in Railway Magazine, page 800:
- See also: cite
- Derived terms
- write-down, writedown