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1. V-T/V-I 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. 取消

The Russian foreign minister yesterday cancelled his visit to Washington. 俄外交部長昨天取消了對華盛頓的訪問。

Many trains have been cancelled and a limited service is operating on other lines. 許多列車都被取消了，少數班次在其他路線運行。

The customer called to cancel. 顧客打電話來取消了。

2. cancellationN-VAR 取消

Outbursts of violence forced the cancellation of Haiti's first free elections in 1987. 暴力事件的爆發迫使海地取消了1987年的首次自由選擧。

3. V-T If someone in authority cancels a document, an insurance policy, or a debt, they officially declare that it is no longer valid or no longer legally exists. 廢止; 廢除

He intends to try to leave the country, in spite of a government order cancelling his passport. 他不顧廢止他的護照的政府命令，仍打算要離開這個國家。

4. cancellationN-UNCOUNT 廢止; 廢除

...a march by groups calling for cancellation of Third World debt. …要求解除第三世界的債務的一場集躰遊行。

5. V-T To cancel a stamp or a cheque means to mark it to show that it has already been used and cannot be used again. 蓋銷; 使作廢

The new device can also cancel the cheque after the transaction is complete. 這種新設備還能在交易結束後將支票注銷。