terminate meaning
[ 'tə:mineit ] Pronunciation: "terminate" in a sentence
Verb: terminate 'turmu`neyt
- Bring to an end or halt
"The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"
- end - 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 - Be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- end - 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
More: Next- nocardiosis frequently terminates fatally.
- the case was terminated by statute.
- her appeal has terminated favorably.
- murphy 's unhappy martial life terminated in divorce.
- the contract will terminate soon.