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cancelled

Cancelled is the status of an insurance policy that has been ended before its scheduled expiration date.

In plain English

An insurance policy can stop before the date it was originally set to finish. When that happens, its status is described as cancelled.

In context

Here, cancelled means the policy is being marked as no longer active because it has already been ended before its planned end date.

Situation
Renewing, changing, cancelling, and retrieving policy documents
What it communicates
classifies the policy as no longer active after completion of cancellation

Meaning limits

This status by itself does not say who ended the policy or why it was ended.

Examples

“The travel insurance policy was cancelled six weeks before it was due to expire.”

Core meaning

“By December, her car insurance policy remained cancelled even though the original end date had not arrived.”

In context

  • expired Contrast

    Both describe a policy that is no longer in force, but expired ends at the scheduled end date.

  • active Opposite

    Active describes a policy that is still in force rather than ended before its scheduled end date.