Cryptic crossword clue
Damaged items Dora eventually wrote off 9

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word AMORTISED

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The straight part
We know that "eventually wrote off" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case eventually wrote off = amortised.
The cryptic/wordplay part
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This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does AMORTISED mean?

AMORTISED verb
  1. To alienate (property) in mortmain.
  2. To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
  3. To even out the costs of running an algorithm over many iterations, so that high-cost iterations are much less frequent than low-cost iterations, which lowers the average running time.

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