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w/o

w/o is the abbreviation of write off.

w/o is the abbreviation of walkover.

w/o is the abbreviation of week of.

w/o is the abbreviation of write-off.

w/o is the abbreviation of week(s) old.

w/o is the abbreviation of wife of.

Meaning of write off

Verb

write off (third-person singular simple present writes off, present participle writing off, simple past wrote off, past participle written off)

  1. (transitive) To reduce the book value of (an asset) to zero.
  2. (transitive) To record (an expenditure) as an expense.
  3. (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).
  4. To record a notional expense such as amortization or depreciation.
  5. (transitive) To treat as a write-off, a total loss, especially something damaged beyond economic repair.
    • The '800' received substantial collision damage, while the High Speed Train power car was written off.2020 May 20, “Fleet News: Collision-damaged '800' at Wolverton”, in Rail, page 25
  6. (figuratively, transitive) To assign a low value to (somebody or something).
    • When Katya was injured, he wrote off the team's chances in the finals.

Meaning of walkover

Noun

walkover (plural walkovers)

  1. An easy victory; a walkaway.
    • Along the way, there was another backdrop to this match, in the form of the goal updates from Serravalle informing everyone that Ukraine were on their way to the obligatory walkover against San Marino.15 October 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Steven Gerrard goal against Poland ensures England will go to World Cup”, in The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    easy thing
  2. A bye or victory awarded to a competitor when a scheduled opponent fails to play a game.
  3. A horse race with only one entrant.
  4. (Singapore) An uncontested election.
  5. Someone easy to defeat.
  6. (colloquial) Someone who does not stand up for themselves when mistreated; a doormat.

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Noun

w/o (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural) weight-percent (percentage calculated by relative mass)
    • ZrO₂ + 46 w/o UO₂ + 5 w/o Fe
    Synonyms:
    %mass, %weight, wt%, %w/w, %m/m

Synonyms of w/o

Questions about w/o

What does w/o mean?
W/o means weight-percent (percentage calculated by relative mass).
What is w/o the abbreviation of?
W/o is the abbreviation of write off.
What part of speech is w/o?
W/o is a noun.

Words near w/o in the dictionary

  1. w/e
  2. w/es
  3. w/h
  4. w/i
  5. w/in
  6. w/o
  7. w/off
  8. w/offs
  9. w/out
  10. w/r/t
  11. w/v

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Adapted from Wiktionary: w/o (page history and authors); write off (page history and authors); walkover (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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