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conclusion | Business English

conclusion
noun
uk /kənˈkluːʒən/us
[ C ]
a decision or judgment that is made after careful thought:
The findings and conclusions of the report are simply guidelines, not rulings.
reach/come to/draw a conclusionInformation is gathered into a profile and analytical software draws conclusions about the customer's likely interests.
come to the conclusion thatThe new boss soon came to the conclusion that the German company could turn round the ailing British subsidiary.
[ S ]
the end of a meeting, a speech, a performance, etc.:
Unions called for a conclusion of the negotiations by the end of the week.
The United States trade representative, speaking at the conclusion of the talks on Wednesday, made it clear that the two countries still had significant differences on these issues.
[ S or U ]
the fact of something being arranged or agreed formally:
This latest development has removed a major obstacle to the conclusion of the deal.
 in conclusion
formal
said or written when you are ending a speech, report, etc.:
I want to re-emphasise in conclusion my commitment to the new climate of partnership in this country.
In conclusion, it seems that the increasing incidence of audit committees has not restored confidence in financial reporting.

Examples of conclusion

conclusion
We should instead teach students to think independently and to develop their skills for drawing logical conclusions.
In the course of our analysis, we discovered several problems that we feel could occur in other studies that might lead to false conclusions.
Observations, preliminary conclusions, and potential recommendations that flow from the factual information collected may be discussed but are not provided in writing.
Significant findings and recommendations are those matters that, if not corrected, could affect the results of the auditors' work and users' conclusions about those results.
We have no information or indication about the payment of any kind of information, but a few conclusions can be drawn.
The conclusions of this chapter suggest a definition of beauty, which may partially explain and entirely remove the difficulties which have led to this error.
We shall see, indeed, how far many of the most reputed ethical systems fall short of drawing the conclusions which follow from such a recognition.
The answer, therefore, cannot be that we wait until conclusions are proven beyond a doubt before we publish them.
Opinions and experience on this issue were varied, and no conclusions could be reached from the data provided.
No specialist report can reasonably consist of its conclusions alone, so the metrical and statistical diagrams and tables must be made available.
We are exasperatingly without hard evidence on which to base textual conclusions.
Testing the validity of these conclusions will be one aim of our analysis of the graphic representations.
Part three contains analytical observations and conclusions drawn from the case-studies.
Even more risky are the sort of conclusions one can make from such ratings.
Could something similar come from these sketches that imply a substantial narrative, containing a chain of conclusions about kinds of people?
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Collocations withconclusion

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contradictory conclusion
Can he say how he has reached the apparently contradictoryconclusion that this statement does not, and will not, infringe academic freedom?
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