precancel
verb (used with object)
to cancel (a stamp) before placing it on a piece of postal matter.
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This is a precancellation: a case of institutions running scared from phantasms, recoiling from their missions, assuming that their public is too clueless to look and think.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2020