call off

See also: call-off

English

Verb

call off (third-person singular simple present calls off, present participle calling off, simple past and past participle called off)

1. (transitive) To recall; to cancel or call a halt to.

   Synonyms: cancel, withcall

   If you want me to call off the dog, then get off my land.

   After four months, the police called off the search for the missing boy.

   • 1937, “Let's Call the Whole Thing Off”, Ira Gershwin (lyrics), George Gershwin (music):

     You say either and I say either, / You say neither and I say neither / Either, either Neither, neither / Let's call the whole thing off

   • 2022 September 21, “Network News: Unions postpone action during period of national mourning”, in RAIL, number 966, page 15:

     National rail strikes by ASLEF members on September 15 and by RMT members on September 15 and 19 were immediately called off.

2. (intransitive) To telephone in one's notice of a day's absence from work.

   Synonym: call in sick

Derived terms

• call-off
• call off the dogs

Translations

to cancel

• Czech: odvolat (cs)
• Finnish: perua (fi)
• Georgian: გაჩერება (gačereba), შეჩერება (šečereba), შეწყვეტა (šec̣q̇veṭa)
• German: absagen (de)
• Polish: odwołać (pl)
• Portuguese: cancelar (pt)
• Russian: отзывать (ru) (otzyvatʹ), отменять (ru) (otmenjatʹ)
• Spanish: cancelar (es), terminar (es), parar (es)
• Turkish: iptal (tr)
• Ukrainian: відміня́ти (uk) (vidminjáty), відклика́ти (vidklykáty)