Definitions of cancellation
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the act of calling off or revoking a planned event or agreementtypes:write-offthe act of cancelling from an account a bad debt or a worthless assetrecission, rescission(law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been madederogation(law) the partial taking away of the effectiveness of a law; a partial repeal or abolition of a lawvacationthe act of making something legally voidrecallthe act of removing an official by petitionrevocationthe act (by someone having the authority) of annulling something previously donetype of:nullification, overridethe act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something
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something, such as an event or agreement, that has been called offtype of:negationthe speech act of negating
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neutralization of a force, signal, effect, or value by introducing an equal and opposite one
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