call off
Speech parts
1. call off - Noun
2. call off - Verb
Meaning
give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance
postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
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I later saw Afande Tugume on television saying funny things. I don't know whether it was his accent or he meant it but instead of saying: "The match was unfair!", he said: "The match was an affair!". Now my girlfriend wants to call off our kwanjula because of his statements on national television.
Call off the engagement
cancel the dinner party
we had to scrub our vacation plans
scratch that meeting--the chair is ill
According to the statement, the president said despite accepting the demands of the protesters, they refused to call off the strike.