Cancelled Definition

verb

Simple past tense and past participle of cancel.

The game was cancelled because of snow on the field.
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adjective

No longer planned or scheduled.

The cancelled show would have drawn 5,000 fans.
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(of a mail item) Marked over the stamp, to show that the stamp has been used.
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Cancelled Sentence Examples

  • The paper cancelled the whole thing the next week.

  • Those assignats which were returned to the state as purchase-money were to be cancelled, and the whole issue, it was argued, would consequently disappear as the national lands were distributed.

  • Vanessa was first to have her "show cancelled" - a surprising turn of events, based on her past efforts.

  • The palace acted as a barracks for his assassins, who were trudging in after he ordered their contracts all cancelled.

  • Large sums of money and games and shows were provided for the people, and, in addition, all the arrears of taxation for the last fifteen years (about £10,000,000) were cancelled and the bonds burnt in the Forum of Trajan.

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