There's no alibi to put out for cancellation (9)
I believe the answer is:
abolition
'cancellation' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'there's no alibi to put out' is the wordplay.
'there's' says to put letters next to each other.
'put out' is an anagram indicator.
'no'+'alibi'='noalibi'
'noalibi' next to 'to' is 'noalibito'.
'noalibito' anagrammed gives 'ABOLITION'.
'for' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for abolition that I've seen before include "Eradication" , "Annulment" , "Act of putting an end to something" , "Removal of" , "Action of doing away with something" .)