cancel out
phrasal verbcancel out | cancel something out
- if two or more things cancel out or one cancels out the other, they are equally important but have an opposite effect on a situation so that the situation does not change
- Recent losses have cancelled out any profits made at the start of the year.
- The advantages and disadvantages would appear to cancel each other out.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCancel out is used with these nouns as the object:- effect
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