verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flight is cancelled (= a flight that was due to go somewhere does not go )
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All flights have been cancelled due to fog.
cancel a booking
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If you wish to cancel your booking, you must do it in writing.
cancel a reservation
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She called the restaurant and cancelled the reservations.
cancel an appointment
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He had to cancel all his afternoon appointments.
cancel an engagement
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He instructed his secretary to cancel all his engagements.
cancel sb’s leave (= stop people taking leave )
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The Police Department cancelled all leave because of the emergency.
cancel your plans
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The weather got worse, and we had to cancel our plans to have the party outdoors.
cancel your subscription
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Please give a month's notice if you are cancelling your subscription.
cancel/end/terminate a contract
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The buyer has three days in which to cancel the contract.
cancel/stop a cheque (= stop a cheque from being paid to someone )
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Don't forget to phone the bank and cancel that cheque.
write off/cancel a debt (= say officially that it does not have to be paid )
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The bank finally agreed to write off the debt.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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And she had been pretty on that slab, all the influences of birth and upbringing cancelled out .
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Creation is not cancelled out by redemption.
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Retributive punishment restores the balance by cancelling out this advantage with a commensurate disadvantage.
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The pattern is one of random steps, which by the laws of statistics tend to cancel out over longer periods.
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But Sepp said continuing the mortgage and charitable deductions at the same time would cancel out the increase from investment taxes.
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Ballantyne scored a try which cancelled out a strike by Mike Debusk then sent in Keith Johnston for a second.
■ NOUN
agreement
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However, one disadvantage of a forward contract is that it can not be cancelled without the agreement of both counterparties.
appointment
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The fact is, I cancelled the appointment so now I have a morning at home to myself.
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After 1 have one of those, I just get my secretary to cancel my appointments and drive me home.
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Two days earlier I'd cancelled an appointment with a psychic healer, thinking perhaps I should leave well enough alone.
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Then he hung up immediately, phoned his office and cancelled his afternoon appointments .
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He cancelled his appointments for a week, and stayed in the Loire, spending each day with the boy.
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She had cancelled all other appointments .
booking
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If you have to cancel a booking , please let us know as soon as possible.
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It was after you decided that we'd have to cancel our bookings for Venice next March because of the exchange rate.
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On two consecutive years the venue, one used for many conferences, tried to cancel our booking .
concert
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Well, maybe we should cancel the whole concert .
contract
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This must be returned within five days, otherwise we reserve the right to cancel the contract .
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If you try to cancel the magazine contract , watch out.
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The customer is given the right to cancel the contract during the cooling-off period.
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Some of these ISPs have tried to cancel contracts with spammers, but revocation can be costly.
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It can also threaten to cancel federal contracts with any firms that refuse to change.
debt
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Giving him his liberty would not cancel his debt however.
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If Banks could be persuaded to cancel debts , it would make a great difference to the countries concerned.
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It wants child poverty abolished in 20 years; it aims to cancel third world debt .
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Imams or Christs, Mahdis or Messiahs were there to cancel all debts , atone for all insults.
decision
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However, if a decision to cancel was going to be made it would have to be made now.
engagement
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Perhaps he'd simply cancelled whatever social engagements he had when he'd realised that his brother needed sorting out?
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He had been prepared to cancel an engagement at London's Victoria and Albert Museum if a satisfactory outcome was reached.
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Midge, who had cancelled none of her engagements , asked Patrick if he would accompany her in Stevie's place.
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Now the 60-year-old film star has cancelled all her engagements until the end of the year.
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But the prince was still in pain today and was forced to cancel the engagement .
event
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And the local council is urging Oxfam to cancel the event , fearing the hippies will return.
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His security chief has now advised him to cancel the events planned at Coroa Vermelha.
holiday
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If necessary, we will offer you the opportunity to transfer to an alternative holiday or cancel the holiday without penalty.
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Cancellation by us may be necessary in exceptional circumstances and we reserve the right in our absolute discretion to cancel your holiday .
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We reluctantly cancelled our holiday and we have been offered a full refund.
meeting
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He had to cancel a meeting at Camp David, complaining of a stubborn cold and hoarse throat.
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Prices were lifted after budget negotiators in Washington cancelled meetings today and delayed talks aimed at reaching a balanced-budget agreement.
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If certain key individuals have still not arrived start without them or cancel the meeting .
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For a moment his heart sank, as he thought she might be cancelling their meeting .
operation
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A reset button may be used to cancel operation and a further pushbutton switch used to trigger the unit at any time.
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It is desirable for the text editor to have the ability to cancel the latest operation performed.
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S2 may subsequently reset the bistable and cancel operation .
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The most obvious solution was simply to cancel the operation as the weather was totally unsuitable for parachuting.
order
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The company, a maker of database software, said its customers were cancelling orders in fear of recession.
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His wife on hearing of this is displeased, so to maintain matrimonial harmony, he sends a telex cancelling his order .
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If they still don't arrive, you're entitled to cancel your order .
plan
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Yasuda Fire &038; Marine cancelled its plans for offering 50m new shares.
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Consumers were calling lenders to cancel refinancing plans , delay buying homes and seek advice on their loans.
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Its 495-326 vote had the effect of curbing Mr Yeltsin's authority and cancelling his plans for an April referendum.
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He was prepared to cancel his plans for civil disobedience and wanted to discuss the matter with the Viceroy.
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She was certain Barbara would come, even if she had to cancel other plans .
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If you have to cancel or change your plans , you may be charged a cancellation fee.
policy
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General Accident may cancel this policy by sending seven days notice by recorded delivery to your last known address.
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We can also cancel this policy straight away if you do not pay the premium or any instalment of the premium.
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This does not affect your statutory rights imposed by law, which will allow you to cancel your policy within 14 days.
project
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The company is also said to be cancelling personal computer-based projects and turning its resources elsewhere.
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Growing costs and poor management, however, nearly forced then President Clinton to cancel the project in 1993.
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Minnesota's Oak Park Heights Prison cancelled a telemarketing project because of fears that inmates might menace customers.
show
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And last week they cancelled the Danny Baker show because of it.
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Other stations demanded that we cancel the show in the national interest.
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They can cancel those shows between 6 a. m. and 10 p. m., when children are most likely to be watching.
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Last month, Mellencamp had to cancel shows in Detroit and Pittsburgh because of physical exhaustion.
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So much so that for cricket internationals, they cancel the best show .
subscription
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I seriously considered cancelling my subscription .
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Subsequently we cancelled all the subscriptions .
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You may also cancel your subscription at any time.
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Some readers have cancelled their subscriptions because of her.
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Obviously we shall have to cancel these subscriptions unless our grant is restored to the previous year's level.
trip
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So, although it was an important meeting, I cancelled the trip .
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Prominent Republicans, including Bob Dole, advised the President publicly to cancel the trip .
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For one thing, she wouldn't wait for him to cancel their trip to Monpazier.
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This is disappointingly high and the Shropshire Railway Society has already cancelled its proposed trip .
visit
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She didn't blame her father for being disgruntled when she'd cancelled Anna's visit .
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Mr Major, meanwhile, cancelled a scheduled visit to Manchester to watch the Test match and worked on his speech instead.
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When the staff at Bloomfield criticize the Profitboss for cancelling a visit three times running, he accepts it as constructive advice.
■ VERB
decide
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The hospital decided to cancel the whole deal.
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It was decided to cancel the Manchester landing and fly direct to Prestwick.
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So why am I disturbed that Temple University decided last month to cancel a series of public radio commentaries by Abu-Jamal?
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The new Kennedy administration had decided to cancel Skybolt.
force
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But the prince was still in pain today and was forced to cancel the engagement.
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Without counsel, Val was forced to cancel a due process hearing, asking it be postponed until she could get representation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a canceled check
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Classes were canceled for the day.
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I called and canceled the order.
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I forgot to cancel my doctor's appointment.
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The comedy was canceled after just four episodes.
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They were forced to cancel the concert when the conductor became ill.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And she had been pretty on that slab, all the influences of birth and upbringing cancelled out.
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But the changes eventually could cancel almost a dozen station construction flights aboard the shuttle and several additional components.
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Hamilton said that, depending on how the students fared emotionally Tuesday morning, he might cancel classes in the afternoon.
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The project had been cancelled by Labour for lack of public funds.
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Waiting lists started to lengthen as operations were cancelled.
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We spent hours on the phone Thursday evening working through the guest-list to tell people the party was cancelled.