Loss
Write off
Write off verb - To express scornfully one's low opinion of.
Both terms in one sentence
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One Neighbours storyline saw Lou Carpenter setting up a restaurant named Little Tommy Tucker's which he intended to make a loss so he could declare it a tax write off.
Source: Springtime for Hitler - In fact it's played with repeatedly in that story, the Lampadas ego-memories are treated as extremely precious and the loss of life egregious, but Odrade is willing to agree to 'write off' whole planets with a curt 'yes' and not think twice about the loss of life.
Source: A Million Is a Statistic -
It was a doctor removing kidneys from gastric bypass patients, since they are operating in the same area and the patient is likely to write off any problems caused by loss of kidney to complications from surgery.
Source: Organ Theft
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