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# cancelled

verb form (past and past participle of cancel: cancel, cancels, cancelled, cancelling — UK; canceled, canceling — US); adjective (a cancelled match)

«cancelled» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Cancelled means stopped or called off, so that a planned thing will not happen: the match was cancelled. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cancelled/#m1)
2. Cancelled means made no longer valid: a cancelled ticket or order. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cancelled/#m2)
3. In maths, cancelled means simplified by dividing the top and bottom of a fraction by the same number, or by removing equal amounts on both sides. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cancelled/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life: school closed or trips cancelled because of snow, storms or illness; flights and trains cancelled — check before you travel. In maths, cancelling fractions: 6/8 cancelled down becomes 3/4 (divide both by 2). In stories, a cancelled party can be the start of a problem to solve. Phrases: cancelled due to, cancelled because of, cancelled out, cancel down a fraction.

### Examples

- Football practice was cancelled because of the storm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cancelled/#x1)
- Our flight was cancelled, so we stayed another night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cancelled/#x2)
- School is cancelled today because of snow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cancelled/#x3)
- 4/8 cancelled down is 1/2. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cancelled/#x4)
- The party was cancelled when the host got sick. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cancelled/#x5)
- Adding 5 and then taking away 5 cancels out. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cancelled/#x6)
- He cancelled his order online. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cancelled/#x7)

### Note

Spelling: UK, Irish, Australian, NZ and often Canadian English — cancelled, cancelling (double l); US English — canceled, canceling (one l). Noun: cancellation (double l everywhere). Maths: cancelling a fraction does not change its value, only its numbers: 10/15 = 2/3.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cancelled» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cancelled/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cancelled» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cancelled.html) on Mova free.