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/ˈkansəl/,
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canceling, present participle; cancelling, present participle; cancelled, past tense; cancelled, past participle; cancels, 3rd person singular present; canceled, past participle; canceled, past tense;
  1. Decide or announce that (an arranged or planned event) will not take place
    • - he was forced to cancel his visit
  2. Annul or revoke (a formal arrangement which is in effect)
    • - his visa had been canceled
  3. Abolish or make void (a financial obligation)
    • - I intend to cancel your debt to me
  4. Mark, pierce, or tear (a ticket, check, or postage stamp) to show that it has been used or invalidated
    • - canceled checks
  5. (of a factor or circumstance) Neutralize or negate the force or effect of (another)
    • - the electric fields may cancel each other out
  6. Delete (an equal factor) from both sides of an equation or from the numerator and denominator of a fraction


  1. off: (of events) no longer planned or scheduled; "the wedding is definitely off"
  2. (cancel) natural: a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
  3. (cancel) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; "Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party"; "we had to scrub our vacation plans"; "scratch that meeting--the chair is ill"
  4. (cancel) make up for; "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength"
  5. (cancel) declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law"
  6. (cancel) delete: remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"
  7. "Cancelled" is the season 7 premiere episode and the overall 97th episode, although intended to be the 100th, of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on March 19, 2003.
  8. (Cancellation (insurance)) An insurance policy may be canceled before the end of the policy period. This has the effect of ending the policy coverage on the date of the policy cancellation.
  9. (Cancellation (mail)) A cancellation (or cancel for short; French: "oblitération") is a postal marking applied on a postage stamp or postal stationery to deface the stamp and prevent its re-use. Cancellations come in a huge variety of designs, shapes, sizes and colors. ...
  10. (Cancellation (television)) In television, cancellation (also known colloquially as axing) refers to the termination of a program by the network, typically (but not always) because of low viewership and/or bad, critical reviews. ...
  11. No longer planned or scheduled; Marked over the stamp, to show that the stamp has been used
  12. (cancel) A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English). (Internet) A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message; To cross out something with lines etc; To invalidate or annul something; To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so ...
  13. (cancellation) The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself; The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor; A postmark that marks a postage stamp so as to prevent its reuse; In United ...
  14. (CANCEL) Due to errors or defects in printing, a book may have one or more pages sliced out of the text block after it has been bound. The new printed matter pasted on to the resulting stub is referred to as a "cancel" or "cancellans".
  15. (Cancel) Used in the context of general equities. Void an order to buy or sell from 1) the floor, or 2) the trader/salesman's scope. In Autex, the indication still remains on record as having once been placed unless it is expunged.
  16. (Cancel) A correction added after a book has been bound. May be anywhere from a small inserted piece of paper to an entire new page pasted in.
  17. (Cancel) A tipped-in (i.e., pasted in) page to replace a page removed after a book has been bound.
  18. (Cancel) The act, of either party in an insurance contract, of ending the contract prior to its expiration. Both parties are required to give written notice to the other party to effect such cancellation. ...
  19. (CANCEL (COMMAND KEY)) This command key allows the user to annul a transaction that has not yet been confirmed by using the Enter command key. If the PED does not have a Clear command key, the Cancel key will either cancel the entire transaction, or cancel the operation in progress.
  20. (CANCEL) A bibliographical term referring to a leaf which is substituted for one removed by the printers because of an error. ...
  21. (CANCEL) Customers requesting that an item of advertising or an entire contract be removed by canceling their Yellow Pages advertising.
  22. (Cancel (Postmark)) A cancel is the placement of a mark over postage to designate that it has been accepted into use by a postal system and to prevent it from being used for postal services again. There are various types of cancels and the more unique ones are collected. ...
  23. (Cancel (a Case)) (WCB) An action by the Board to nullify indexing when two case numbers are assigned to a single claim.
  24. (Cancel) A button in most dialogue boxes in a graphical user interface that will exit the box without making any changes. Any settings that were changed will return to what they were before the box was open.
  25. (Cancel) A command shown on a button that stops the process you are in.