Termination Meaning
/tɚmɪˈneɪʃən/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
nounThe process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
Sentence Examples
I was devastated when I received my termination notice.
Tom sued his employer for wrongful termination.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The manager announced the ____ of the program due to lack of funds.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The sudden ____ of the project came as a huge shock to all the employees who had worked so hard on it today.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Latin terminationem (accusative of terminatio).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"At all terminal stations, where running speeds are low, fixed termination simple catenary equipment has been installed."
— 1959 June 26, “Clacton and Walton Electrification”, in Railway Magazine, page 379:
"Long indeed did that morning appear to Francesca—the longer as her anxiety was unexpressed; for it certainly does shorten a period of waiting not a little to spend it in talking over its various probabilities of termination, wondering what will happen, while we are consoled by the strong sympathy we excite in the listener."
— 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 111:
"1. Some adjectives of the third declension have three terminations in the nominative singular,—one for each gender; some two,—one for the masculine and feminine, the other for the neuter; and some, only one for all genders.
1. Verbs whose terminations are alike, are said to be of the same conjugation.
2. Latin verbs are divided into four conjugations."
— 1849, E. A. Andrews, A First Latin Book; Or Progressive Lessons in Reading and Writing Latin, 2nd edition, Boston, page 52 & 69:
"Women's names were formed in the same way as men's, but with feminine terminations […]"
— 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiii:
"She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star."
— 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The manager announced the ____ of the program due to lack of funds.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The sudden ____ of the project came as a huge shock to all the employees who had worked so hard on it today.