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terminate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | end |
| Type of | alter, modify, change |
| Has types | abort, close, adjudicate, ax, axe, break, break off, break up, close out, closure, cloture, complete, conclude, crush out, culminate, decide, discontinue, dissolve, extinguish, finalise, finalize, finish, interrupt, kill, lift, nail down, phase out, press out, raise, resolve, settle, stamp out, stop, stub out |
| Derivation | termination, terminative |
The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I.
terminate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away |
| Type of | remove |
| Has types | send packing, pension off, furlough, lay off, squeeze out, dismiss, retire, drop, send away, clean out |
The company terminated 25% of its workers.
terminate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cease, end, finish, stop |
| Has types | go, go away, go out, turn out, disappear, discontinue, vanish, recess, climax, break, run low, run out, run short, lapse, close, break up, come out, adjourn, pass away, conclude, culminate, cut out |
| Derivation | terminative, terminus |
the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed.
Examples of terminate
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Most leases are set to terminate Monday, though it may vary for certain tenants.
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Fort Bend school officials said the district will terminate almost 500 teachers.
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Blind thrust faults terminate below the Earth's surface and are therefore blind.
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And we had to terminate all the employees who had an involvement in this matter.
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The agreement to terminate his deal allowed the Mets to spread out the payments.
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What then follows is that the ICC will have to terminate the case and lose face.
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Others hold that, for this same reason, none of the Law can terminate or expire.
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The board voted 3-1 to terminate the officers, Beverly Miles and Larry Greenlee.
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Village trustees voted 4-2 to terminate Burrows and 4-3 to terminate Blomenkamp.
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- End: bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "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"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"
- End: be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie"
- Displace: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
- (terminated) complete: having come or been brought to a conclusion; "the harvesting was complete"; "the affair is over, ended, finished"; "the abruptly terminated interview"
- (terminated) (of e.g. a contract or term of office) having come to an end
- On many computer operating systems, a computer process terminates its execution by making an exit system call. More generally, an exit in a multithreading environment means that a thread of execution has stopped running. The operating system reclaims resources (memory, files, etc. ...
- Terminate (terminat.exe) was a shareware modem terminal and host program for MS-DOS and compatible operating systems developed from the early to the late 1990s by the Dane Bo Bendtsen. The last release (5. ...
- (Termination (employment)) Termination of employment is the end of an employee's duration with an employer. Depending on the case, the decision may be made by the employee, the employer, or mutually agreed upon by both.
