stornieren — meaning in English

English meaning

• cancel verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
• contra preposition Against or in opposition to.
• nix noun Nothing, zero.

Senses

stornieren is used for these senses in English:

• cancel (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
• contra (accounting) To undo; to reverse.
• nix To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel. [from 1903]

cancel — full definition

1. verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
2. verb To make something officially invalid.
3. verb In mathematics, to remove a common factor from both parts of a fraction or equation.
4. verb Informally, to withdraw public support from someone over controversial behaviour.

contra — full definition

1. preposition Against or in opposition to.
2. noun An accounting entry that offsets or cancels out another entry.
3. noun A member of a rightist guerrilla group that fought Nicaragua's socialist government in the 1980s, secretly backed by the United States.

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