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Meanings of terminate in English

Portuguese
despedir
Catalan
acomiadar
Spanish
finiquitar

Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.

    despedir
    Portuguese
    concluir
    Catalan
    finalitzar
    Spanish
    cesar

    Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.

        concluir

        To make something end.

              Usage of terminate in English
              1
              She has been asking the court to terminate this case for years.
              Reuters
              2
              Currently, many train routes terminate at different train stations throughout the city.
              Wired
              3
              This is also a good time to terminate your business insurance coverage.
              Reuters
              4
              It can also terminate the 30-year facility at specific times, it said.
              Reuters
              5
              We mutually agreed to terminate the contract with no issues, Yusuf said.
              Radio NZ
              6
              YG said on Wednesday it would terminate Lee's contract at his request.
              Reuters
              7
              The top-end option is to terminate his contract and launch legal action.
              The Guardian
              8
              The Chinese Government decided to terminate the line of the Living Buddhas.
              Beasts, Men and Gods
              9
              I'm not just learning whether Luke Warren wanted to terminate life support.
              Lone Wolf
              10
              These canals terminate in the bladder, an oval-shaped reservoir for the urine.
              Common Diseases of Farm Animals
              11
              Nor did the struggle in behalf of this enlightened movement terminate here.
              Sketches and Studies
              12
              At length the contest seemed about to terminate in favour of Ignacio.
              Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843
              13
              I also made one very encouraging discovery: how to terminate their existence.
              World war z: an oral history of the zombie war
              14
              I had heard but too much of how these attacks generally terminate.
              She
              15
              If not, they may have the right to terminate employment, he says.
              The Guardian
              16
              The decision on whether to terminate employment will rest with the employer.
              The South African
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              Terminate through the time
              Terminate across language varieties
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