termination
/tɚmɪˈneɪʃən/ noun C1- The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
- The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
- An end in time; a conclusion.
- An end in space; an edge or limit.
- An outcome or result.
- The last part of a word.
- An induced abortion.
- The ending up of a polypeptide chain.
Plural terminations
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Consider also that I fully believed I had accomplished the end and aim of my undertaking, for which I had so exactly husbanded my strength as to make it just hold out to the termination of my enterprise; and now, at the moment when I reckoned upon success, my hopes are forever dashed from me.
“Where am I?” exclaimed she; “and to whom am I indebted for so happy a termination to my late dreadful alarm?”
We may easily understand how eagerly the particulars were asked for, given, and received; and Morrel could read an indescribable joy in the eyes of his beloved, when she knew that the termination of this affair was as happy as it was unexpected.
Danglars waited a moment, expecting the postilion to come and demand payment with the termination of his stage.
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