Translation of "charge off " (English → French) :

They charge them a right-of-landing fee not the refugees; we took the charge off the refugees for that.

6. Without prejudice to the application of the principles referred to in Articles 14 and 15 of the service provision Regulation, Member States may decide not to calculate terminal charges as stipulated in Article 11 of this Regulation and not to set terminal unit rates as referred to in Article 13 of this Regulation in respect of air navigation services provided at aerodromes with less than 150 000 commercial air transport movements per year, regardless of the maximum take-off mass and the number of passenger seats, movements being counted as the sum of take-offs and landings and calculated as an average over the previous three years.

He is charging off $800 million to year ending 1997.

It was charged off to last year's budget, to last year's income statement, to last year's deficit ending March 1996.

Conversely, my experience on the issuer side says that their charge-offs or losses tend to go up in these types of cycles as well.

Imagine the poor old fisheries officer trying to get hold of Foreign Affairs Canada to get permission from the Minister of Foreign Affairs to call Panama's minister of foreign affairs to get permission to lay a charge off the coast of Newfoundland.