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writes for the drawer

writes for the drawer is the third-person singular simple present indicative of write for the drawer.

Meaning of write for the drawer

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To write a work for posterity or for friends that one cannot publish except as samizdat.
    • It was a middle-aged intellectual crowd. Publishers who abandoned their writers, writers who wrote for the drawer, artists who had become wealthy by turning Social Realism into kitsch.2013, Martin Cruz Smith, Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel, page 19

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Writes for the drawer is the third-person singular simple present indicative of write for the drawer.

Words near writes for the drawer in the dictionary

  1. writerships
  2. writes
  3. writes checks one can't cash
  4. writes cheques one can't cash
  5. writes down
  6. writes for the drawer
  7. writes in
  8. writes itself
  9. writes off
  10. writes one's own ticket
  11. writes out

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