(scheduling) Abbreviation of week of.

“w/o January 7th”

Abbreviation of wife of.

“Sandy Steven, w/o Steven”

An easy victory; a walkaway.

A bye or victory awarded to a competitor when a scheduled opponent fails to play a game.

A horse race with only one entrant.

Outside, externally. This is still used in the names of some civil parishes in England, e.g. St Cuthbert Without.

Lacking something.

“Being from a large, poor family, he learned to live without.”

In prostitution: without a condom being worn.

To reduce the book value of (an asset) to zero.

To record (an expenditure) as an expense.

To remove a portion of a debt or an amount of an account owed, counting it as a loss (as a gesture of goodwill for example).

The cancellation of an item; the amount cancelled or lost

Something that is now worthless (such as a car after an accident)