say it: tur-muh-NAY-shuhn
termination is a noun meaning "a coming to an end of a contract period". It carries 5 recorded senses.
something that results
“he listened for the results on the radio”
the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
“I don't like words that have -ism as an ending”
the act of ending something
“the termination of the agreement”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for termination come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.