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Meaning of write back in English

write back

phrasal verb with write verb
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/raɪt/ us
/raɪt/
wrote | written or old use writ
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to reply to someone's letter:
I'll write back and tell her we're coming.
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(Definition of write back from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

write sth back | Business English

write sth back

phrasal verb with write verb
uk
/raɪt/ us
wrote | written
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ACCOUNTING, FINANCE
to add an amount to a company's profit for a particular period relating to a possible future cost that will not now have to be paid:
The group's $50m profit rise was helped by writing back unused provisions made in previous years.
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write-back
write-back
noun [ C ]
  ACCOUNTING, FINANCE
uk
us
an amount added to a company's profit for a particular period relating to a possible future cost that will not now have to be paid:
The bank's profit was helped by the write-back of a $27.6m bad-debt provision.
(Definition of write back from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of write back

write back
In the write-back operating mode, writes to cached blocks are going to the cache device only, with such blocks marked as dirty in the metadata.
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But the write-back mechanism also contained a mini arithmetic unit, which the processor used for several purposes.
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Both write-back and write-through (which is the default) policies are supported for caching write operations.
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While the data must still be written back eventually, the write-back may be deferred.
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As was common at the time, the memory boards contained a write-back circuit to solve the destructive-read problem inherent to magnetic core memory.
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This is an optimization for write-back caches snooping the bus.
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It is direct-mapped, uses a write-back write policy and an on-write allocation policy.
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The data cache uses the write-back write protocol.
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This is the only state that generates a write-back when the block is replaced in the cache.
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It is 7-way set associative, uses a 64-byte line size, and has a write-back policy.
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Translations of write back

in Chinese (Traditional)
回信…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
写回信…
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in Spanish
contestar…
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in Portuguese
responder…
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odpisywać…
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mektuba cevap yazmak…
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répondre…
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skrive tilbake…
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