FINALIZE meaning: Complete the last necessary step

We found 26 dictionaries that define the word finalize:

General (22 matching dictionaries)

finalize: Merriam-Webster
finalize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
finalize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
finalize: Collins English Dictionary
finalize: Vocabulary.com
Finalize, finalize: Wordnik
finalize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
finalize: Wiktionary
finalize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
finalize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
finalize: Infoplease Dictionary
finalize: Dictionary.com
finalize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Finalize (optical discs), Finalize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
finalize: Rhymezone
finalize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
finalize: FreeDictionary.org
finalize: Mnemonic Dictionary
finalize: TheFreeDictionary.com
finalize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

Finalize (optical discs), finalize: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

finalize: Encyclopedia
Windows API Guide (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb: (transitive) To make final or firm; to finish or complete.
▸ verb: (transitive, computing, programming) To prepare (an object) for garbage collection by calling its finalizer.

Opposite:

undo, revoke, cancel, rescind, retract

Types:

sign, seal, conclude, end, terminate, finish, more...

Phrases:

to finalize, to finalize something with a flourish, more...

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