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cancellation
CIDE DICTIONARY
cancellation, n. [L. cancellatio: cf. F. cancellation.].
- The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself. [1913 Webster]
- The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cancellation, n.
1 the act or an instance of cancelling or being cancelled.
2 something that has been cancelled, esp. a booking or reservation.
1 the act or an instance of cancelling or being cancelled.
2 something that has been cancelled, esp. a booking or reservation.
Etymology
L cancellatio (as CANCEL)
THESAURUS
cancellation
abandonment, abbreviation, abolishment, abolition, abridgment, abrogation, annulment, arabesque, basketry, basketwork, blot, blotting, blotting out, blue-penciling, bowdlerization, cancel, canceling, cancelling, cassation, censoring, censorship, cessation, counterbalancing, countermand, counterorder, cross-hatching, crossing-out, defeasance, deletion, discontinuance, editing, effacement, elimination, erasure, expunction, expurgation, filigree, frank, fret, fretwork, frustration, grace period, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, hachure, hatching, interlacement, intertexture, intertwinement, invalidation, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, lattice, latticework, mesh, meshes, meshwork, moratorium, net, netting, network, neutralization, nullification, obliteration, offsetting, omission, plexure, plexus, postage, postage stamp, postmark, raddle, recall, recantation, renege, repeal, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, retraction, reversal, revocation, revoke, revokement, riddle, screen, screening, scrubbing, setting aside, sieve, stamp, stoppage, striking, suppression, suspension, termination, texture, thwarting, tissue, tracery, trellis, trelliswork, undoing, vacation, vacatur, vitiation, voidance, voiding, waiver, waiving, washing out, wattle, weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, wicker, wickerwork, wiping out, withdrawal, write-offROGET THESAURUS
cancellation
Obliteration
N obliteration, erasure, rasure, cancel, cancellation, circumduction, deletion, blot, tabula rasa, effacement, extinction, obliterated, out of print, printless, leaving no trace, intestate, unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten, Int, dele, out with it!, delenda est Carthago.For further exploring for "cancellation" in Webster Dictionary Online
