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Withdrawal vs Cancellation - What's the difference?

withdrawal | cancellation |

As nouns the difference between withdrawal and cancellation

is that withdrawal is receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them usually refers to money while cancellation is the act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.

withdrawal

Noun

(en noun)
  • Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
  • A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.
  • A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance, usually a toxin such as heroin, to which a patient is addicted is withheld. Sometimes used with the substance as modifier
  • heroin withdrawal
    nicotine withdrawal
  • An act of withdrawing.
  • Antonyms

    * (sense, receiving from someone's care) deposit

    cancellation

    English

    (cancellation)

    Alternative forms

    * cancelation (US)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
  • (mathematics) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor.
  • (philately) A postmark that marks a postage stamp so as to prevent its reuse.
  • (legal) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to cancel the registration of a trademark or patent.