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Paid vs Cancelled - What's the difference?

paid | cancelled |

As verbs the difference between paid and cancelled

is that paid is past tense of pay while cancelled is past tense of cancel.

As an adjective cancelled is

no longer planned or scheduled.

paid

English

Alternative forms

* payed (archaic)

Verb

(head)
  • (pay)

    • Statistics

    *

    Anagrams

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    cancelled

    English

    Alternative forms

    * canceled (US)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cancel)
    • The game was cancelled because of snow on the field.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • No longer planned or scheduled.
    • The cancelled show would have drawn 5,000 fans.
  • (of a mail item) Marked over the stamp, to show that the stamp has been used.