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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
- I don't recall offhand the names of any of the other sources.
- 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
- Romania's government issued a last-minute appeal to him to call off his trip.
- Fearing the consequences as World War II threatened, FDR asked him to call off the march.
- The people who call off engagements and quit jobs. Times, Sunday Times
- The people who call off engagements and quit jobs. Times, Sunday Times
- I've just had another phone call off daughter #2 to say that the grandson has been diagnosed as allergic to animals so she can't dog sit my Yorkies while I'm away on holiday in 2 weeks time.
- It is really the public video trunk call office.
- Sometimes it refers to what we call miraculous endowments, sometimes it refers to what we may call official capacity; but here it is evidently neither the one nor the other of these more limited and special things, but the general idea of a divine operation upon the human spirit which fills it with Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
- In a statement issued here, the DUTA executive has announced that while it will call off the impending agitation, it will maintain a strict watch over the developments.
