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Abschreiben — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • depreciate verb To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of.
  • transcription noun The act of converting speech or recorded sound into written text.

Senses

Abschreiben is used for these senses in English:

  • depreciate (intransitive) To decline in value over time.
  • transcription (linguistics) A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.
  • write down (transitive, accounting) To make a downward adjustment in the value of an asset.

depreciate — full definition

  1. verb To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of.
  2. verb To decline in value over time.
  3. verb To belittle or disparage.

transcription — full definition

  1. noun The act of converting speech or recorded sound into written text.
  2. noun (biology) The process by which a cell copies DNA into RNA.

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