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postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
scratch that meeting--the chair is ill
we had to scrub our vacation plans
Call off the engagement
cancel the dinner party - give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance
How To Use call off In A Sentence
- Once the bewitcher is unmasked they are then confronted and asked to call off the attack.
- Former prime minister Ivan Kostov has stirred up further controversy on the Brady bond swop with a letter urging his successor Simeon Saxe-Coburg to call off the deal.
- As for the anachronism known as offside, experts in physiology say the human eye frequently cannot call offside accurately (try simultaneously tracking the ball and two or more sprinting players separated by 20 to 30 meters). Jonathan Littman: Innovation World Cup Style
- Carnival associations were considering last night whether to call off festivities for this year. Times, Sunday Times
- Call off the Elvis impersonator and cancel the trip to Vegas.
- The administration has officially asked transportation workers to call off their strike.
- Romania's government issued a last-minute appeal to him to call off his trip.
- But they are concerned - and rightly so - that an attempt to call off the November election could produce a social and political explosion.
- When they tried to survey members about the impact this has, they had to call off the exercise owing to torrential rain. Times, Sunday Times
- Given the usual investor apathy, 12 per cent may suffice to call off the marriage. Times, Sunday Times
