Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

write off

verb

Forms writes off writing off wrote off written off

verb (accounting, transitive) To reduce the book value of (an asset) to zero.
verb (accounting, transitive) To record (an expenditure) as an expense.
verb (accounting, transitive) To remove a portion of a debt or an amount of an account owed, counting it as a loss (as a gesture of goodwill for example).
verb (accounting) To record a notional expense such as amortization or depreciation.
verb (transitive) To treat as a write-off, a total loss, especially something damaged beyond economic repair.
verb (figurative, transitive) To assign a low value to (somebody or something). “When Katya was injured, he wrote off the team's chances in the finals.”

Synonyms

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “write off”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details