cancellation
NounUS[kan-suh-ley-shuhn]/ˌkænsəˈleɪʃən/4 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (2)cancellations
- the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangementType of nullification, overrideKinds abrogation, write-off, attainder, recission
- the speech act of revoking or annulling or making voidType of negation
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Translations
Noun act of cancelling
- Spanish
- cancelación
- French
- annulation
- German
- Absage
- Italian
- cancellazione
- Portuguese
- cancelamento
- Turkish
- iptal
- Russian
- отме́на otména
- Chinese
- 取消 qǔxiāo
- Japanese
- 取り消し torikeshi
- Dutch
- afgelasting
13 more languages
- Swedish
- avbeställning
- Greek
- ακύρωση akýrosi
- Korean
- 취소 chwiso
- Hungarian
- lemondás
- Portuguese (PT)
- anulação
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 取消 qǔxiāo
- Catalan
- cancel·lació
- Czech
- storno
- Danish
- afbestilling
- Finnish
- peruutus
- Georgian
- გაუქმება gaukmeba
- Hebrew
- ביטול bitúl
- Romanian
- contramandare
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Can′cel·la′tion noun
Origin: L. cancellatio: cf. F. cancellation.
1. The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
2. Mathematics The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54