[] to end; to make sth end （使）结束，停止，终止◆Your contract of employment terminates in May. 你的雇用合同五月到期。◆The agreement was terminated immediately. 协议被立即中止。
() [] () to remove sb from their job 解雇◆They had been terminating people in their fifties. 他们一直在解雇五十来岁的人。◆terminated employees 被解雇的员工➡ see note at dismiss