Termination vs Sanction - What's the difference?
termination | sanction |
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; a suffix.
(medical) An induced abortion.
(obsolete, rare) A word, a term.
* 1599 ,
The ending up of a polypeptid chain.
An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.
A penalty, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance; especially one adopted by several nations, or by an international body.
A law, treaty, or contract, or a clause within a law, treaty, or contract, specifying the above.
To ratify; to make valid.
To give official authorization or approval to; to countenance.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:
To penalize (a State etc.) with sanctions.
As nouns the difference between termination and sanction
is that termination is the process of terminating or the state of being terminated while sanction is an approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.As a verb sanction is
to ratify; to make valid.termination
English
Noun
(en noun)- She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations , there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star.
Synonyms
* (process of terminating ): discontinuation, stoppage * (state of being termined ): discontinuation * (process of firing an employee ): discharge, dismissal * (end in time ): close, conclusion, end, finale, finish, stop * (end in space ): border, edge, end, limit, lip, rim, tip * (outcome ): consequence, outcome, result, upshot * (medical): abortion, induced abortionAntonyms
* (process of terminating or the state of being terminated) continuationDerived terms
* extermination * terminative * terminative casesanction
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Many of the most earnest Protestants were business men, to whom lending money at interest was essential. Consequently first Calvin, and then other Protestant divines, sanctioned interest.