transitive verb
Definition 1
Put an end to, halt, abandon.
Source: Invertext, from Concise Oxford Dictionary
Context: Iberia remains entitled to terminate the merger agreement if a pension recovery plan agreed between BA and its pension trustees proves "materially detrimental to the economic premises of the proposed merger".
Source: Financial Times 08/04/2010 (Mark Mulligan in Madrid and Pilita Clark in London)
Definition 2
Finish, conclude (job, task, undertaking, etc.)
Source: Invertext, from Concise Oxford Dictionary
Context: The Consortium partners terminated their work in May 2009 after the end-review meeting with the European Commission.
Source: eurogeographics.org