verb (formal)
1 to end; to make sth end:
[V] Your contract of employment terminates in December. * [VN] The agreement was terminated immediately. * to terminate a pregnancy (= to have an ABORTION)
2 [V] (of a bus or train) to end a journey/trip:
This train terminates at London Victoria.
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