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Finalize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To put into final form; complete or conclude: "They have jointly agreed ... to drop all litigation when the merger is finalized” ( Springfield MA Union-News).

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To make final or firm; to finish or complete.

v. To prepare (an object) for garbage collection by calling its finalizer.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. to put the last touches on; put into final form.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. make final; put the last touches on; put into final form

Word Usage

"Yet the word finalize may be misleading; you are never truly finished with goal setting."

Verb Form

finalized finalizes finalizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

terminate end

Form

finalized finalizing finalizer unfinalized

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

make final settle nail down of document