cancellation

American  

[kan-suh-ley-shuhn] / ˌkæn səˈleɪ ʃən /

Or cancelation

noun

1. an act of canceling.

2. the marks or perforations made in canceling.

3. something canceled, as a reservation for a hotel room, airplane ticket, allowing someone else to obtain the accommodation.

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cancellation British  

/ ˌkænsɪˈleɪʃən /

noun

1. the fact or an instance of cancelling

2. something that has been cancelled, such as a theatre ticket, esp when it is available for another person to take

   we have a cancellation in the stalls

3. the marks or perforation made by cancelling

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Other Word Forms

• recancellation noun

Etymology

Origin of cancellation

First recorded in 1525–35, cancellation is from the Latin word cancellātion- (stem of cancellātiō ). See cancellate, -ion

Example Sentences

Hundreds of thousands of households in the US have no power as a major storm rolls across the country, which is also leading to flight cancellations and road closures.

From BBC

A massive winter storm has disrupted swaths of the U.S., dropping snow, freezing roads and causing thousands of flight cancellations and power outages.

From The Wall Street Journal

Saturday’s cancellations most significantly affected flights in and out of Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, while the heaviest of Sunday’s cancellations were at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina and Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

From MarketWatch

Our plans were roiled by delays or cancellations due to a government shutdown, a shortage of air-traffic controllers and no shortage of bad weather.

From The Wall Street Journal

Local rail has also seen a rise in incidences, such as delays, cancellations and technical problems, which have more than tripled since 2019 on the Madrid local Cercanías network.

From BBC

Related Words

• abandonment
• abolition
• annulment
• dissolution
• elimination
• repeal
• retirement
• reversal
• revocation