EGAVE

write up

About 0.57 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To produce by writing.
    The supervisor wrote up the personnel report about him.
  2. verb To document officially the faults, offenses, or wrongdoing of.
    His supervisor wrote him up after their last argument.
  3. verb To write about positively; to praise in writing.
    The paper wrote up the team's prospects.
  4. verb To make an upward adjustment in the value of an asset.
    The company decided to write up its property assets after an independent appraisal showed their market value had increased significantly.
  5. verb To annotate a stamp album page with details about the stamp, such as die used or colour variety.
    She carefully wrote up each stamp in her collection, noting the Scott catalog number, perforation gauge, and printing plate variety.
  6. verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see write,‎ up.
    I can't write up in the attic; it's too cold there in the winter and too hot there in the summer.

Similar words

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Word family

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