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{
"term": "terminate",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "terminate",
"heSheIt": "terminates"
},
"pastSimple": "terminated",
"pastParticiple": "terminated",
"ingForm": "terminating"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to end; to make something end",
"sensetop": "terminate something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Your contract of employment terminates in December."
},
{
"text": "The agreement was terminated immediately.",
"contextForm": "terminate something"
},
{
"text": "to terminate a pregnancy (= to perform or have an )"
},
{
"text": "His contract was abruptly terminated."
},
{
"text": "The agreement was lawfully terminated under clause 34."
},
{
"text": "This federal intervention effectively terminated the strike."
}
],
"topics": ["Houses and homes", "Life stages"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["abruptly", "prematurely", "immediately"],
"verb + terminate": ["be entitled to", "decide to"],
"phrases": [
"the decision to terminate something",
"the right to terminate something"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to end a journey",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "This train terminates at London Victoria."
}
],
"topics": ["Transport by bus and train"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtɜːmɪneɪt/",
"audio": "te/terminate/terminate__gb_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtɜːmɪneɪts/",
"audio": "te/terminate/terminates__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtɜːmɪneɪtɪd/",
"audio": "te/terminate/terminated__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtɜːmɪneɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "te/terminate/terminating__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtɜːrmɪneɪt/",
"audio": "te/terminate/terminate__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtɜːrmɪneɪts/",
"audio": "te/terminate/terminates__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtɜːrmɪneɪtɪd/",
"audio": "te/terminate/terminated__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtɜːrmɪneɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "te/terminate/terminating__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 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’."
}