🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

taxa de cancelamento

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ˈtak.sɐ dʒi kã.se.lɐˈmẽ.tu/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Cancellation fee/ˌkæn.səlˈeɪ.ʃən fiː/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Foi cobrada uma taxa de cancelamento devido à desistência tardia."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An amount of money that a company charges a customer if they break an agreement or cancel a service or reservation after a specific deadline.

    "Because I cancelled my flight less than 24 hours before departure, I had to pay a steep cancellation fee."
  2. 2

    A financial penalty imposed for withdrawing from an event, subscription, or appointment without adequate prior notice.

    "The hotel has a strict policy regarding late bookings, charging a cancellation fee equivalent to the first night's stay."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the verb 'cancel' (from Latin 'cancellare', meaning to lattice or strike out with crosslines) combined with '-ation' (noun-forming suffix), paired with 'fee' (from Old English 'feoh', meaning cattle or property/money). The compound term emerged in modern commercial terminology to describe penalty charges for terminating a service contract prematurely.

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🇫🇷French → English

frais d'annulation

Transliteration: frɛ d‿a.ny.la.sjɔ̃

"Des frais d'annulation seront appliqués si vous annulez après cette date."

🇩🇪German → English

Stornogebühr

Transliteration: /ˈstɔʁnoːɡəˌbyːɐ̯/

"Bei kurzfristiger Absage fällt eine Stornogebühr an."

🇮🇹Italian → English

penale di cancellazione

Transliteration: /peˈnaːle di kan.tʃel.laˈtSjoːne/

"Se si cancella la prenotazione tardi, è prevista una penale di cancellazione."

🇪🇸Spanish → English

gastos de cancelación

Transliteration: /ˈɡastos ðe kan.selaˈsjon/

"La reserva no es reembolsable y se aplican gastos de cancelación."

🇵🇹Portuguese → English

taxa de cancelamento

Transliteration: /ˈtak.sɐ dʒi kã.se.lɐˈmẽ.tu/

"Foi cobrada uma taxa de cancelamento devido à desistência tardia."

🇮🇳Hindi → English

रद्दीकरण शुल्क

Transliteration: raddīkaraṇ śulk

"अंतिम समय में बुकिंग रद्द करने पर रद्दीकरण शुल्क देना होगा।"

🇨🇳Chinese → English

取消费

Transliteration: qǔxiāofèi

"如果在入住前两天内取消,酒店将收取取消费。"

🇰🇷Korean → English

취소 수수료

Transliteration: chwiso susuryo

"예약을 취소하시면 취소 수수료가 부과됩니다."

🇯🇵Japanese → English

キャンセル料

Transliteration: kyanseruryō

"ご宿泊日の前日以降のキャンセルにはキャンセル料がかかります。"

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