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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: make final; put the last touches on; put into final form; "let's finalize the proposal" [syn: finalize, finalise, settle, nail down]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-ized; -izing) Date: 1901 1. to put in final or finished form <soon my conclusion will be finalized — D. D. Eisenhower> 2. to give final approval to <finalizing the papers prepared…by his staff — Newsweek> • finalization noun Usage: Finalize has been frequently castigated as an unnecessary neologism or as United States government gobbledygook. It appears to have first gained currency in Australia (where it has been acceptable all along) in the early 1920s. The United States Navy picked it up in the late 20s, and from there it came into widespread use. It is a standard formation (see -ize). Currently, it is most frequently used in government and business dealings; it usually is not found in belles-lettres.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (also -ise) 1 put into final form. 2 complete; bring to an end. 3 approve the final form or details of. Derivatives: finalization n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(finalizes, finalizing, finalized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'finalise' If you finalize something such as a plan or an agreement, you complete the arrangements for it, especially by discussing it with other people. Negotiators from the three countries finalized the agreement in August... They have not finalized the deal with the government. VERB: V n, V n with n

Moby Thesaurus

KO, button up, call off, cancel, cap, carry to completion, clean up, climax, clinch, close out, close up, complete, conclude, crown, culminate, decide, delete, dispose of, drop the curtain, end, end off, expunge, extinguish, finish, finish off, finish up, fold up, get done, get it over, get over with, get through, get through with, give the quietus, kayo, kibosh, kill, knock out, mop up, perfect, polish off, put paid to, round out, scrag, settle, sew up, shoot down, terminate, top off, top out, wind up, wipe out, wrap up, zap