call off

1. 1.

   postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled

   “Call off the engagement”

   “cancel the dinner party”

   “we had to scrub our vacation plans”

   “scratch that meeting--the chair is ill”

   Synonymscancelscratchscrub
2. 2.

   give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance

   Synonymscall

Questions about call off

What does call off mean?

call off means "postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for call off?

Close synonyms include cancel, scratch, scrub, call. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is call off a common word?

call off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.