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Examples
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Banks sold off non-core businesses, and NAMA, a state asset-management agency, bought up toxic and other assets at written-down prices.
Did Ireland Need a Bailout? Dick Roche 2011
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Follow-up studies established that the mood boost didn't come from sealing any old words, nor from doing other things with written-down worries.
This column will change your life: Sealing off worries Oliver Burkeman 2010
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On the other hand, those who were slumped over their desks were less likely to accept these written-down feelings about their own qualifications.
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Rubin's phrasing is in addition rather peculiar: "It is all very well ... to insist that it is the written-down story that should command our attention as readers".
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The judge, now shaking his head over Darling Boy and Pickup and deciding he could put off the moment no longer, handed his written-down result to the waiting official, who leaned forward and drew the microphone to his mouth.
The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010
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The company noted that it expects the actual incurred losses from the written-down securities to be "materially lower," based on current assumptions.
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Salaries will have to go up to make up for losses in retirement funds and housing prices; and the face-value of mortgages and credit card debt will have to be written-down.
What's in the New Recovery.Gov (And What's Missing) Scola, Nancy 2009
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Recent asset sales achieved roughly their written-down values, and holdings of subprime mortgages and collateralized-debt obligations are now small.
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Their "foreign currency loans should be denominated in domestic currency at written-down (and de-indexed) interest rates, or repudiated outright."
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The state, he said, has “written-down” its Antares loss.
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