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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. (cancel) natural: a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
  2. (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"
  3. (cancel) make up for; "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength"
  4. (cancel) declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law"
  5. (cancel) delete: remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"
  6. (cancel) make invalid for use; "cancel cheques or tickets"
  7. (Cancelled (South Park)) "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. (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 ...
  9. (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".
  10. (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.
  11. (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.
  12. (Cancel) A tipped-in (i.e., pasted in) page to replace a page removed after a book has been bound.
  13. (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.
  14. (CANCEL) A bibliographical term referring to a leaf which is substituted for one removed by the printers because of an error. ...
  15. (CANCEL) Customers requesting that an item of advertising or an entire contract be removed by canceling their Yellow Pages advertising.
  16. (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. ...
  17. (Cancel (a Case)) (WCB) An action by the Board to nullify indexing when two case numbers are assigned to a single claim.
  18. (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.
  19. (Cancel) A command shown on a button that stops the process you are in.
  20. (Cancel) A command that will discontinue any canned cycles or sequence commands.
  21. (Cancel) A natural sign, used to remove a previously applied accidental.
  22. (Cancel) Also known as Cancellation. A marking intended to show a stamp has been used and is no longer valid as postage. Modern cancels usually include the name of the original mailing location or a nearby sorting facility and the date of mailing. ...
  23. (Cancel) An often-misunderstood command. It does not mean delete (e.g., the file) or "send it to the moon." It usually means, simply, turn off the display now on the screen.
  24. (Cancel) Any part of a book that is a replacement for what was originally printed, usually due to error or correction.
  25. (Cancel) Cancelling a task will release the chapter from the responsibility of completing it.