finalization

finalize | American Dictionary

finalize
verb[ T ]
us/ˈfɑɪ·nəlˌɑɪz/
to make a final and certain decision about a plan, date, etc.:
Details of the deal are being finalized.

finalize | Business English

finalize
verb[ T ]
(UKalsofinalise)uk /ˈfaɪnəlaɪz/us
to stop making changes to a plan, date, agreement, etc. and make a final decision about it:
Although details are still being finalized, the deal is expected to go through next month.
finalize plans/arrangements
finalize a deal/an agreement

finalization

noun[ U ](UKalsofinalisation)/ˌfaɪnəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
De Beers said finalization of its trade agreement with the country has been delayed by the political situation.

Examples of finalize

finalize
A useful discussion of the electrodynamics of a dusty plasma containing nonspherical dust particles finalizes the large coverage of collective phenomena.
Against all the odds, however, a deal has been finalized.
Presumably this happened before the range of allowed amino acids was finalized at just 20.
Items were pilot tested on 50-100 respondents in each country prior to being finalized for use in the main surveys.
Although substitutes for finalize can be found among complete, conclude, make final, and put into final form, none of these is an exact synonym.
The corresponding cost for both structures was estimated according to the average time required to finalize a transfer.
The government bill based on this proposal is currently in the process of being finalized.
The finalized protocol was administered once to each youth, during either the first (n = 52, 33%) or second (n = 103, 67%) longitudinal interview.
This phase is finalized by creating a preliminary parts list and possibly production documents.
Many obstacles - the details of which are outside the realm of our present subject - prevented them from finalizing the production.
The contributors reviewed the draft before the paper was finalized.
Possible future work is then presented, and we finalize the paper by presenting the conclusions derived from this work.
As the details of the current organization changes are finalized, some of these issues will need to be addressed.
If anyone doubted the power of established interests, further proof came just as policymakers were finalizing disability insurance.
After the list of rejected projects was finalized to eliminate non-project applications, a written questionnaire was mailed out.
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