put (someone) down as

idiom

: to think of (someone) as (a specified kind of person or thing)

Most people put him down as a fanatic.

Examples of put (someone) down as in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Department of Veterans Affairs offers VA loan programs, and those who qualify can put down as little as 0%. —Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2025

The 4,000-square-foot townhouses, originally priced from $1.2 million to $1.8 million, are under contract to buyers who put down as much as $500,000 starting as far back as 2018. —Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025

For instance, the Department of Veterans Affairs offers VA loan programs; those who qualify can put down as little as 0%. —Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 19 Jan. 2025

In other words, that legal fees or legal expense were put down as legal expense by accountants. —Abc News, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2025

The agreement includes the option for a 14-day extension provided another $100,000 is put down as earnest money. —Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2022

Almost 100,000 people have signed a petition calling on the British government to reverse a legal ruling that the 6-year-old animal be put down as soon as Monday. —Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2021

Investors try to put down as little as possible in earnest money. —Byard Duncan, ProPublica, 17 May 2023

Fannie’s version, called its HomeReady program, allows buyers to put down as little as 3 percent and may result in lower monthly payments compared with its standard mortgages. —Ron Lieber, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2023