Usually means: Comes to a definitive end.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. terminates: Merriam-Webster
  2. terminates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. terminates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Terminates: Wordnik
  5. terminates: Wiktionary
  6. terminates: Dictionary.com
  7. terminates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. terminates: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. terminates: Wordnik
  10. terminates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. terminates: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. terminates: Legal dictionary
  3. terminates: Financial dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. terminates: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Terminates: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See terminate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (terminate)

verb:  (transitive) To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
verb:  (transitive) To conclude.
verb:  (transitive) To set or be a limit or boundary to.
verb:  (transitive) To form an appropriate end on (a wire, cable, hose, pipe, etc), such as by applying a cable terminal or a hose ferrule.
verb:  (transitive) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
verb:  (transitive, euphemistic) To kill someone or something.
verb:  (intransitive) To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
verb:  (intransitive) Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
verb:  (intransitive) To issue or result.
adjective:  Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
adjective:  Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
adjective:  (mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.
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