terminate meaning

[ 'tə:mineit ] Pronunciation:   "terminate" in a sentence
Verb: terminate  'turmu`neyt
  1. Bring to an end or halt
    "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"
    - end 
  2. Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
    "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"
    - end, stop, finish, cease 
  3. Be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
    - end 
  4. Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
    "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
    - displace, fire, give notice, can [N. Amer], dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack

Derived forms: terminated, terminating, terminates

See also: termination, terminative, terminus

Type of: alter, be, change, modify, remove

Encyclopedia: Terminate Terminate, with extreme prejudice


[Business]
AmE / verb

1 [+ obj or no obj]

to end; to make sth end:

Your contract of employment terminates in May.

The agreement was terminated immediately.

2 (HR ) [+ obj] (especially AmE)

to remove sb from their job:

They had been terminating people in their fifties.

terminated employees See note at DISMISS

Examples

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  1. nocardiosis frequently terminates fatally.
  2. the case was terminated by statute.
  3. her appeal has terminated favorably.
  4. murphy 's unhappy martial life terminated in divorce.
  5. the contract will terminate soon.

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