cancel, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

cancel (cancels 3rd person present) (cancelling present participle) (cancelled past tense & past participle )
in AM, use canceling, canceled

1  verb If you cancel something that has been arranged, you stop it from happening. If you cancel an order for goods or services, you tell the person or organization supplying them that you no longer wish to receive them.
The Russian foreign minister yesterday cancelled his visit to Washington...  V n
♦ cancellation  (cancellations plural) n-var
Outbursts of violence forced the cancellation of Haiti's first free elections in 1987.

2  verb If someone in authority cancels a document, an insurance policy, or a debt, they officially declare that it is no longer valid or no longer legally exists.
He intends to try to leave the country, in spite of a government order cancelling his passport...  V n
♦ cancellation  n-uncount
...a march by groups calling for cancellation of Third World debt.

3 verb To cancel a stamp or a cheque means to mark it to show that it has already been used and cannot be used again.
The new device can also cancel the check after the transaction is complete. V n