CANCELLATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement

Classified under:

Hypernyms ("cancellation" is a kind of...):

nullification; override (the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cancellation"):

abrogation; annulment; repeal (the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation)

write-off (the act of cancelling from an account a bad debt or a worthless asset)

attainder; civil death (cancellation of civil rights)

recission; 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 made)

Derivation:

cancel (declare null and void; make ineffective)

cancel (postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The speech act of revoking or annulling or making void

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents