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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cancellation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cancellation charge
▪ If you change your flight booking, you may have to pay a cancellation charge.
a cancellation fee (=a charge for ending an agreement you have made to travel on a train, stay at a hotel etc)
▪ A 10% cancellation fee will be charged if the booking is cancelled.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
charge
▪ It has been suggested that the contracts for the earlier boats in the programme have entailed penal cancellation charges.
▪ If all names changes on any booking, then cancellation charges will apply.
▪ If you need to change your date of travel within six weeks of travel full cancellation charges apply.
▪ The minimum cancellation charge is your deposit amount.
▪ A cancellation charge is made when a customer cancels or doesn't show up.
debt
▪ My ultimate objective is complete debt cancellation.
▪ We question simplistic quantitative measures-based on Gross Domestic Product-of which countries are to qualify for debt cancellation.
▪ The more radical campaigners focus on poverty eradication and debt cancellation.
▪ There are also more specific moral arguments for debt cancellation.
▪ There must be a major government-led initiative for large-scale debt cancellation.
▪ Instead, they need debt cancellation, better access to the rich markets of the North and an increase in aid.
■ VERB
announce
▪ President Banzer, to quell the spreading demonstrations, announced cancellation of the water privatisation on April 5.
cause
▪ A change of government or policy sometimes causes cancellation of funds.
▪ But bad weather causes frequent delays and cancellations.
force
▪ A similar problem had forced the cancellation of the May launch of the shuttle Columbia.
▪ His withdrawal from one debate in Iowa forced cancellation of the event.
▪ Really heavy seas can force cancellation of services.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Bad weather led to the cancellation of most flights out of O'Hare.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both the compromise issue and the cancellation issue were therefore finally decided by the Court of Appeal.
▪ Davis cancellations must be postmarked by Feb. 27.
▪ Find out about payment structure as well as refund and cancellation policies.
▪ Following widespread protests the government announced the cancellation of the dam project in early March.
▪ Medical and legal expenses, public liability and cancellation should all be included at as high a level as possible.
▪ The move implements cancellation provisions contained in the second and third life assurance directive.
▪ The possibility of penal cancellation charges in the public domain is a rumour.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cancellation

Cancellation \Can`cel*la"tion\, n. [L. cancellatio: cf. F. cancellation.]

  1. The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.

  2. (Math.) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cancellation

also cancelation, 1530s, from Latin cancellationem (nominative cancellatio), noun of action from past participle stem of cancellare "to cancel" (see cancel). Of reservations for conveyances, hotels, etc., from 1953.

Wiktionary
cancellation

alt. 1 The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself. 2 (context mathematics English) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor. 3 (context philately English) A postmark that marks a postage stamp so as to prevent its reuse. 4 (context legal English) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to cancel the registration of a trademark or patent. n. 1 The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself. 2 (context mathematics English) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor. 3 (context philately English) A postmark that marks a postage stamp so as to prevent its reuse. 4 (context legal English) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to cancel the registration of a trademark or patent.

WordNet
cancellation
  1. n. the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement

  2. the speech act of revoking or annulling or making void

Wikipedia
Cancellation (insurance)

An insurance policy may be canceled before the end of the policy period. This has the effect of ending the policy coverage on the date of the policy cancellation.

Cancellation (mail)

A cancellation (or cancel for short; French: "oblitération") is a postal marking applied on a postage stamp or postal stationery to deface the stamp and prevent its re-use. Cancellations come in a huge variety of designs, shapes, sizes and colors. Modern United States cancellations commonly include the date and post office location where the stamps were mailed, in addition to lines or bars designed to cover the stamp itself. The term "postal marking" sometimes is used to refer specifically to the part that contains the date and posting location, although the term often is used interchangeably with "cancellation." The portion of a cancellation that is designed to deface the stamp and does not contain writing is also called the "obliteration" or killer. Some stamps are issued pre-cancelled with a printed or stamped cancellation and do not need to have a cancellation added. Cancellations can affect the value of stamps to collectors, positively or negatively. The cancellations of some countries have been extensively studied by philatelists and many stamp collectors and postal history collectors collect cancellations in addition to the stamps themselves.

Cancellation (television)

In television, cancellation refers to the termination of a program by a network, typically because of low viewership, financial losses, or unfavourable critical reviews. Other potential reasons for canceling television programs include controversies involving the program's cast, conflicts among the show's staff members or to make room for new programming.

Shows whose runs end due to a mutual creative decision by its producers, cast, and the network it airs on (such as Seinfeld, The Sopranos, or The Cosby Show) are not considered to be "cancelled" but rather "concluded" or "ended", with a special last episode called its series finale. Even so, programs that end their runs in this manner are sometimes incorrectly stated to have been cancelled, even if the program was renewed for a final season (such as with American Idol, by which the term was incorrectly applied upon the announcement of Fox, Fremantle Media and 19 Entertainment's decision to renew the show for a 15th and final season in May 2015 to air in 2016); shows that are cancelled traditionally end their runs during the television season in which the program airs first-run episodes at the time, either effective immediately after the announcement is made by the network or until all remaining episodes are broadcast.

The Friday night death slot is a perceived graveyard slot in American television, referring to the idea that a television program in the United States scheduled on Friday evenings is destined for imminent cancellation.

Usage examples of "cancellation".

It was a straightforward decision by the BBC not to put it out and I had negotiated a cancellation payment while he was in Australia.

But doubtful weather conditions in the Berlin area caused the Lancaster raid to be abandoned, the cancellation order not reaching squadrons until 10.

I guess we could say it was really only one last-minute cancellation for two rooms.

He would try to negotiate with the Allies a cancellation of reparations, whose payment had been temporarily stopped by the Hoover moratorium.

If this were done, and as soon as he had settled the problem of cancellation of reparations and equality of armaments, he himself would retire.

He seemed to be on the eve of sensational successes in foreign policy with regard to both the cancellation of reparations and equality of armament for the Reich.

Hitler, to work on his chief, and after some hesitation and more than one cancellation the Fuehrer agreed definitely to come to Smolensk on March 13, 1943.

How can legally elected consuls initiate a revolutionary measure like a general cancellation of debt?

And do you think those in favor of a general cancellation of debt do not understand all that?

And sure enough, they all reported back that it was indeed being bruited about that if Catilina and Lucius Cassius were elected the consuls, they would bring in a general cancellation of debt.

Manlius and Furius have been telling anyone important enough to have a vote which counts in the Centuriate elections that you and your named colleague, Lucius Cassius, intend legislating a general cancellation of debt once you assume office as consuls?

Cicero had pronounced that awful phrase, a general cancellation of debt, the House now broke into audible murmuring.

And for every financially distressed senator, there were three who stood to lose far more from a general cancellation of debt than they stood to gain, men like Crassus, Lucullus, the absent Pompeius Magnus.

Nothing could be more appalling to a knight-businessman than the specter of a general cancellation of debt, even if he was in debt himself.

A general cancellation of debt is most appealing to little men and men without enough liquid assets to maintain a good cash flow.