cancellation vs withdrawal

cancellation

noun
  • The property of being cancellate. 

  • The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself. 

  • In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to cancel the registration of a trademark or patent. 

  • The operation of striking out common factors, e.g. in both the dividend and divisor. 

  • A postmark that marks a postage stamp so as to prevent its reuse. 

withdrawal

noun
  • An act of withdrawing or a state of being withdrawn. 

  • A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation. 

  • The sum of money taken from a bank account. 

  • Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money. 

  • A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance, usually a toxin such as heroin, to which a patient is dependent is withheld. Sometimes used with the substance as modifier. 

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