Cancel
verb
To stop or finish something that was planned or arranged.
They had to cancel the party due to bad weather.
Often appears as...
- cancel an appointment
- cancel a reservation
verb
To remove or delete something.
I decided to cancel my subscription to the magazine.
Often appears as...
- cancel a subscription
- cancel an order
verb
In mathematics, to remove equal parts from both sides of an equation.
When I calculated the fractions, I was able to cancel out the denominators.
Often appears as...
- cancel out
- cancel down
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Academic
verb
In law, to make a legal document no longer have any legal power.
His bankruptcy resulted in the court deciding to cancel his debt.
Often appears as...
- cancel a contract
- cancel a debt
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Formal
Technical
verb
To stop or finish something that was planned or arranged.
They had to cancel the party due to bad weather.
Often appears as...
- cancel an appointment
- cancel a reservation
verb
To remove or delete something.
I decided to cancel my subscription to the magazine.
Often appears as...
- cancel a subscription
- cancel an order
verb
In mathematics, to remove equal parts from both sides of an equation.
When I calculated the fractions, I was able to cancel out the denominators.
Often appears as...
- cancel out
- cancel down
Usage tips
Academic
verb
In law, to make a legal document no longer have any legal power.
His bankruptcy resulted in the court deciding to cancel his debt.
Often appears as...
- cancel a contract
- cancel a debt
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Unexpected Changes
'Cancel' often relates to unforeseen events interrupting plans.
The flu outbreak forced the school to cancel the play.
Pro Tip 2/3Disappointment Implied
'Cancel' can suggest disappointment or inconvenience.
I was really looking forward to the picnic before they canceled it.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Notification
Cancellations usually require notifying everyone involved.
Please cancel our reservation for tonight and inform the guests.
Pro Tip 1/3Unexpected Changes
'Cancel' often relates to unforeseen events interrupting plans.
The flu outbreak forced the school to cancel the play.
Pro Tip 2/3Disappointment Implied
'Cancel' can suggest disappointment or inconvenience.
I was really looking forward to the picnic before they canceled it.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Notification
Cancellations usually require notifying everyone involved.
Please cancel our reservation for tonight and inform the guests.
Pro Tip 1/3Unexpected Changes
'Cancel' often relates to unforeseen events interrupting plans.
The flu outbreak forced the school to cancel the play.
Pro Tip 2/3Disappointment Implied
'Cancel' can suggest disappointment or inconvenience.
I was really looking forward to the picnic before they canceled it.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Notification
Cancellations usually require notifying everyone involved.
Please cancel our reservation for tonight and inform the guests.
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How a handful of tech...
one would be protecting against the timelines that we don't want to be experiencing, the thoughts that we wouldn't want to be happening, so that when that ding happens, not having the ding that sends us away; and the second would be empowering us to live out the timeline that we want. So let me give you a concrete example. Today, let's say your friend cancels dinner on you,
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How craving attention...
because people love to get offended, and I don't want to get canceled?" These are the thoughts that enter my mind when I'm supposed to be reading a script, trying to be an artist. And I'm not here to tell you that technology is the enemy of creativity. I don't think that. I think tech is just a tool. It has the potential to foster unprecedented human creativity.
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Olympic Training During...
don't want the games to continue as planned a national union of doctors in japan called for the games to be cancelled and protesters and online petitions are demanding that the government cancel or postpone the games the idea that the world is descending from all of these different places
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How a "Hi Level" Mindset...
And this is the first time as a major artist that I had received mixed reviews of my art. And again, it broke me down, man. I became unmotivated, I started overindulging in things that I'm not proud of. I was almost thinking about canceling my upcoming tour.
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How To Levitate PIPE The...
The areas where the salt gathers are actually where the sound waves are canceling each other out, known as "nodes," and controlling those is the key to sonic levitation. A team of world-leading scientists are pushing that idea to its limits.
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How to deal with...
you're stupid idiot and I wish you had never been born when I confronted her about having said this to me I was told I was making it up and that it was a lie so it wasn't just that my reality was canceled but my perceptions of real
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What makes us feel good...
his boss and his boss wrote him back and said nice presentation but the merger is canceled and the guy was deeply depressed now at the moment when he was working he was actually quite happy every night he was enjoying his work he
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"Everything happens for...
I see that the world is jolted by events that are wonderful and terrible, gorgeous and tragic. I can't reconcile the contradiction, except that I am beginning to believe that these opposites do not cancel each other out.
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Filming Wildlife...
household working with me um if you're wondering why i am out here helping my dad it's because the coronavirus and my internship was cancelled like so many other people's but i think
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Inside the mind of a...
More importantly, the verses in the Koran that are connected to jihad or fighting do not cancel out the verses that talk about forgiveness, benevolence or patience.
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How a handful of tech...
one would be protecting against the timelines that we don't want to be experiencing, the thoughts that we wouldn't want to be happening, so that when that ding happens, not having the ding that sends us away; and the second would be empowering us to live out the timeline that we want. So let me give you a concrete example. Today, let's say your friend cancels dinner on you,
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How craving attention...
because people love to get offended, and I don't want to get canceled?" These are the thoughts that enter my mind when I'm supposed to be reading a script, trying to be an artist. And I'm not here to tell you that technology is the enemy of creativity. I don't think that. I think tech is just a tool. It has the potential to foster unprecedented human creativity.
Video examples
Olympic Training During...
don't want the games to continue as planned a national union of doctors in japan called for the games to be cancelled and protesters and online petitions are demanding that the government cancel or postpone the games the idea that the world is descending from all of these different places
Video examples
How a "Hi Level" Mindset...
And this is the first time as a major artist that I had received mixed reviews of my art. And again, it broke me down, man. I became unmotivated, I started overindulging in things that I'm not proud of. I was almost thinking about canceling my upcoming tour.
Video examples
How To Levitate PIPE The...
The areas where the salt gathers are actually where the sound waves are canceling each other out, known as "nodes," and controlling those is the key to sonic levitation. A team of world-leading scientists are pushing that idea to its limits.
Video examples
How to deal with...
you're stupid idiot and I wish you had never been born when I confronted her about having said this to me I was told I was making it up and that it was a lie so it wasn't just that my reality was canceled but my perceptions of real
Video examples
What makes us feel good...
his boss and his boss wrote him back and said nice presentation but the merger is canceled and the guy was deeply depressed now at the moment when he was working he was actually quite happy every night he was enjoying his work he
Video examples
"Everything happens for...
I see that the world is jolted by events that are wonderful and terrible, gorgeous and tragic. I can't reconcile the contradiction, except that I am beginning to believe that these opposites do not cancel each other out.
Video examples
Filming Wildlife...
household working with me um if you're wondering why i am out here helping my dad it's because the coronavirus and my internship was cancelled like so many other people's but i think
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Inside the mind of a...
More importantly, the verses in the Koran that are connected to jihad or fighting do not cancel out the verses that talk about forgiveness, benevolence or patience.
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Jason Segel
American Actor
I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn't matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I'm about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment.
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Maryse Mizanin
Canadian Wrestler
The way I see it is, you can be a character on a TV show for years, then the TV show gets cancelled and your favorite actress or favorite comedian, you don't see them for a little while and then you see them back doing something else. You can still be enjoying them performing on TV.
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Rocky Carroll
American Actor
There are not that many people who can say they have been on a show long enough to leave it. Usually, you don't have a choice. The show gets canceled. There are very few people who live in the rare air of being able to leave a show while it is still in production.
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Jim Jefferies
Australian Comedian
In my own life, hate has consumed me at times. Or envy. When my TV show was canceled, I didn't think it deserved to be canceled because people liked it. It was canceled for the wrong reasons, you know? I was consumed with hate for about a year.
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Lemon Andersen
American Poet
I don't know, I think that if I had any regrets, that would cancel out the great people that I have in my life. All the tough stuff that I've gone through that I don't wish on no one else has brought a beautiful community to me.
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George Hill
American Athlete
I am not going to sacrifice that for something that doesn't mean as much to me as kids mean to me. The kids mean the world to me. If I have to make a decision to cancel some things, I will do it as a man.
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Nile Rodgers
American Musician
I've never cancelled any public appearance, simply because that's what my life is; it's doing my work, and I never want to stop doing my work unless it becomes impossible for me to do it.
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Jamie Carragher
English Athlete
My family regarded the end of my career as a sign they could really enjoy life a bit rather than cancelling plans on the back of a poor result - it happened many times!
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Suze Orman
American Author
Once your kids are grown and you know that you're completely healthy, consider canceling your life insurance policy.
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Reuven Rivlin
Israeli Politician
I am not someone who will cancel plans because of personal danger, because I'm really not afraid.
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Jason Segel
American Actor
I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn't matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I'm about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment.
Quote examples
Maryse Mizanin
Canadian Wrestler
The way I see it is, you can be a character on a TV show for years, then the TV show gets cancelled and your favorite actress or favorite comedian, you don't see them for a little while and then you see them back doing something else. You can still be enjoying them performing on TV.
Quote examples
Rocky Carroll
American Actor
There are not that many people who can say they have been on a show long enough to leave it. Usually, you don't have a choice. The show gets canceled. There are very few people who live in the rare air of being able to leave a show while it is still in production.
Quote examples
Jim Jefferies
Australian Comedian
In my own life, hate has consumed me at times. Or envy. When my TV show was canceled, I didn't think it deserved to be canceled because people liked it. It was canceled for the wrong reasons, you know? I was consumed with hate for about a year.
Quote examples
Lemon Andersen
American Poet
I don't know, I think that if I had any regrets, that would cancel out the great people that I have in my life. All the tough stuff that I've gone through that I don't wish on no one else has brought a beautiful community to me.
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George Hill
American Athlete
I am not going to sacrifice that for something that doesn't mean as much to me as kids mean to me. The kids mean the world to me. If I have to make a decision to cancel some things, I will do it as a man.
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Nile Rodgers
American Musician
I've never cancelled any public appearance, simply because that's what my life is; it's doing my work, and I never want to stop doing my work unless it becomes impossible for me to do it.
Quote examples
Jamie Carragher
English Athlete
My family regarded the end of my career as a sign they could really enjoy life a bit rather than cancelling plans on the back of a poor result - it happened many times!
Quote examples
Suze Orman
American Author
Once your kids are grown and you know that you're completely healthy, consider canceling your life insurance policy.
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Reuven Rivlin
Israeli Politician
I am not someone who will cancel plans because of personal danger, because I'm really not afraid.
Example 1 of 10
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