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CANCELLATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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
Hypernyms ("cancellation" is a kind of...):
negation (the speech act of negating)
Derivation:
cancel (declare null and void; make ineffective)
