Usually means: Terminate or end something prematurely.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word cancel:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. cancel: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cancel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cancel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cancel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cancel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cancel, cancel: Wordnik
  7. cancel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cancel, cancel: Wiktionary
  9. cancel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cancel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cancel: Dictionary.com
  12. cancel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. cancel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Cancel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cancel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cancel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cancel: Rhymezone
  18. cancel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cancel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. cancel: Free Dictionary
  21. cancel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. cancel: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. cancel: Infoplease Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. cancel: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. cancel: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. cancel: Finance-Glossary.com
  9. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  10. cancel: Legal dictionary
  11. Cancel: Financial dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cancel: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. cancel: CCI Computer
  3. Cancel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cancel: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cancel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cancel: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See cancelable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
verb:  (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
verb:  (transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
verb:  (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
verb:  (transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
verb:  (transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.
verb:  (printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
verb:  (obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
verb:  (slang) To kill.
verb:  (transitive, neologism) To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable); to disinvite. Compare cancel culture.
noun:  (US) A cancellation.
noun:  A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
noun:  (obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
noun:  (printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
noun:  (printing) The page thus suppressed.
noun:  (printing) The page that replaces it.
noun:  A surname.

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