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terminate

B1CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

Law verb

To bring a contract to an end so that the parties are released from future performance.

The client elected to terminate the agreement for repeated late delivery.

Topic: Contracts in Legal English

Business verb

To bring an employee's contract of employment to an end.

His contract was terminated for repeated breaches of the code of conduct.

Similar: dismiss

Topic: Human resources in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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