Usually means: Bring to an end; conclude.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word terminate:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. terminate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. terminate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. terminate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. terminate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. terminate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Terminate, terminate: Wordnik
  7. terminate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. terminate: Wiktionary
  9. terminate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. terminate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. terminate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. terminate: Dictionary.com
  13. terminate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Terminate (disambiguation), Terminate (software): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Terminate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. terminate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. terminate: Rhymezone
  18. terminate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. terminate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. terminate: Free Dictionary
  21. terminate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. terminate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. terminate: Legal dictionary
  5. terminate: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. terminate: Encyclopedia

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

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. terminate: MATH SPOKEN HERE!

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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