write up

To turn notes or information into a complete written account.

• Please write up your notes.
• She wrote up the interview for the local paper.
• Have you written the experiment up yet?

How to use it: write something up (I wrote my notes up after the meeting.); write something up as something (She wrote the findings up as a short report.)

Similar words: write, document, record

Common phrases: write up something, write up results, write up notes

To officially record that someone has broken a rule or done something wrong.

• The manager wrote me up.
• She was written up for ignoring safety rules.
• Will the teacher write him up for fighting?

How to use it: write someone up for something (The manager wrote him up for repeated lateness.)

Similar words: report, cite

Common phrases: write up someone, write up employees

To describe someone or something in writing in a way that makes them seem good.

• The local paper wrote up our restaurant.
• A magazine wrote the young artist up enthusiastically.
• Will the critics write up her latest show?

Similar words: praise, commend

Common phrases: write up someone, write up a restaurant

To increase the value of something a business owns in its financial records.

• The firm wrote up its land.
• An accountant recommended writing up the property after the valuation.
• Can we write up these assets this year?

Similar words: revalue upwards

Opposites: write down

Common phrases: write up assets, write up property

To add written information about stamps to a page in a stamp collection.

• She wrote up the stamps carefully.
• I am writing up the new pages in my stamp album.
• Have you written up that rare stamp yet?

Similar words: annotate

Common phrases: write up stamps, write up an album

To put words on paper or a screen while you are in a higher place.

• I like to write up here.
• She used to write up in the attic.
• Can you write up there without getting cold?

Common phrases: write up here, write up there