terminate
verb (formal)Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they terminate | |
he / she / it terminates | |
past simple terminated | |
past participle terminated | |
-ing form terminating |
- [intransitive, transitive]
to end; to make something end (使)停止,結束,終止 Your contract of employment terminates in December. 你的聘約十二月份到期。 - terminate something
The agreement was terminated immediately. 那項協議立即被終止了。 to terminate a pregnancy (= to perform or have an abortion) 終止妊娠(堕胎)
Extra ExamplesTopics Houses and homesc1, Life stagesc1His contract was abruptly terminated. 他的合同突然被終止了。 The agreement was lawfully terminated under clause 34. 根據第 34 條之規定,協議被依法終止。 This federal intervention effectively terminated the strike. 這次聯邦幹預有效地終止了罷工。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- abruptly
- prematurely
- immediately
- …
- be entitled to
- decide to
- the decision to terminate something
- the right to terminate something
- [intransitive]
(of a bus or train )公共汽車或火車 to end a journey opposite originate (3)Topics Transport by bus and trainc2到達終點站
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘direct an action towards a specified end’): from Latin terminat- ‘limited, ended’, from the verb terminare, from terminus ‘end, boundary’.