Word Finder - cancelling

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To cross out something with lines etc.

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To invalidate or annul something.

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He cancelled his order on their website.

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To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.

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This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code.

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To offset or equalize something.

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The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise.

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To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.

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To stop production of a programme.

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To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.

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To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.

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To kill.

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To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture.

He considered cancelling the meeting.

We firmed plans although it meant my cancelling a night out with a coworker.

The corn-growers and the revenue collectors were ruined by exorbitant imposts or by the iniquitous cancelling of contracts; temples and private houses were robbed of their works of art; and the rights of Roman citizens were disregarded.

By cancelling the political power of the Areopagus and multiplying the functions of the popular law-courts, Ephialtes abolished the last checks upon the sovereignty of the commons.

He was responsible, especially, for the great operation known as the opening of the Grand Livre (August 2 4), which was designed to consolidate the public debt by cancelling the stock issued under various conditions prior to the Revolution, and issuing new stock of a uniform character, so that all fund-holders should hold stock of the revolutionary government and thus be interested in its stability.

Gladstone found that purchase existed only by royal sanction, and advised the queen to issue a royal warrant cancelling, on and after the 1st of November following, all regulations authorizing the purchase of commissions.

He began his campaign by cancelling McClellan's operation, and, his own plan being to strike at Richmond from Fredericksburg, he moved the now augmented army to Falmouth opposite that place, hoping to surprise the crossing of the Rappahannock.

Let us suppose that from a text which we will call A a copy has been made which we will call B, and from this again a copy which we will call C. If the copyist of B goes wrong once and the copyist of C twice in a hundred times, then, assuming that there is no coincidence or cancelling of errors, the relative correctness of the three texts A, B, C will be zoo (absolute correctness), 99 and 97.

This control was most often exercised by cancelling their classification as second-class matter entitled to low mailing rates.

Amending statutes of succeeding years added to the commissioners' powers of fixing fair rents and cancelling arrears, the power of enlarging crofts and common grazings.

It is held by some historians that there was at the time on the part of many of the Roman nobles a determination to raise themselves to power, despite the opposition of the senate; others with "greater probability maintain that Catiline's object was simply the cancelling of the huge debts which he and his friends had accumulated.

A formal bankruptcy of the state, the cancelling of two-thirds of the interest on the public debt, crowned the misgovernment of this disastrous time.

The Cortes authorized the government to negotiate with the foreign bondholders with a view to cancelling that agreement.

The boy and his dad were upset about the bad weather cancelling the play, but they were glad to get a rain check.

If you have to stay late at work one day, you don't have to sweat cancelling your lesson.

In late 2010 and early 2011, Activision also announced that it would be cancelling its planned 2011 Guitar Hero game, partly because of the poor sales of Warriors of Rock, the 2010 release.

Interactions range from simply cancelling out the effects of the drug to preventing it from working properly in the body.

Some women have had less than satisfactory experiences with the customer service departments, claiming they were charged subscription fees after cancelling their accounts or being charged for handbags they never received.

Best price guaranteed rates often come with restrictions that bar guests from cancelling or changing their reservations, so please be certain of dates before booking.

If you have legally reserved one or more names for your business, you should also take care of cancelling the registrations.

Ohio law also prohibits health insurance companies from cancelling the policy for a small business based on a health issue with one of the employees covered by the policy.