cancel
取消,撤销,撤消,取消了
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can·celed, can·cel·ing or can·celled, can·cel·ling.
- : to make void, as a contract or other obligation; annul: to cancel a hotel reservation;to cancel a magazine subscription.
- : to decide or announce that a planned event will not take place; call off: to cancel a meeting.
- : to mark or perforate so as to render invalid for reuse.
- : to neutralize; compensate for; counterbalance: His sincere apology canceled his sarcastic remark.
- : to publicly reject, boycott, or no longer support because of socially or morally unacceptable views or actions: Fans have been quick to cancel their favorite rapper or other celebrity.
- : Accounting. to close by crediting or paying all outstanding charges: He plans to cancel his account at the department store.to eliminate or offset with an entry for an equal amount on the opposite side of a ledger, as when a payment is received on a debt.
- : Mathematics. to eliminate by striking out a factor common to both the denominator and numerator of a fraction, equivalent terms on opposite sides of an equation, etc.
- : to cross out by drawing a line over the item.
- : Printing. to omit.
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Polls suggest that a lot of voters currently don’t know what cancel culture is — and that’s true even among Republicans, despite the party’s elites talking about cancel culture nonstop.
What we now call cancel culture is the contentious nature of a free society wrestling with the respectable parameters of public speech.
Did he participate in his own extortion and cancel his plans for a big Christmas premiere?
My family is ready to mount an intervention, and cancel my streaming accounts.
Should we cancel gatherings, reunions, excursions, or throw ourselves into them with even more gratitude for one another?
Presumably, without those subsidies, most will just cancel their policies.
In a statement, the MoD admitted that it had been forced to cancel the rest of the training program.
A lease made by a minor is not void, but he may avoid or cancel it by some positive act.
Does a debtor who turns over a note to his creditor in payment, thereby cancel the debt?
Either of the parties might cancel the bond, but only after a formal and public notice of his intentions.
Mendelssohn wanted to cancel the excommunication on the ground that the church has no rights in civil matters.