Endgame
noun
The final stage of an activity or process.
The election campaign is now in its endgame
Often appears as...
- reach the endgame
- nearing the endgame
noun
The last stage of a chess game, when only a small number of pieces are left on the board.
In the endgame, a single misstep can cost you the match
Often appears as...
- chess endgame
- play the endgame
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Technical
noun
A plan or a strategy to achieve the final victory.
What's your endgame for this negotiation?
Often appears as...
- hatch an endgame
- define the endgame
noun
The final stage of an activity or process.
The election campaign is now in its endgame
Often appears as...
- reach the endgame
- nearing the endgame
noun
The last stage of a chess game, when only a small number of pieces are left on the board.
In the endgame, a single misstep can cost you the match
Often appears as...
- chess endgame
- play the endgame
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A plan or a strategy to achieve the final victory.
What's your endgame for this negotiation?
Often appears as...
- hatch an endgame
- define the endgame
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Broad Application
Endgame can be used to describe the final phase of various events, not just games or sports.
The project's endgame involved rigorous testing.
Pro Tip 2/3Critical Decisions
In the endgame, every choice can be crucial to a successful outcome.
We're in the endgame now, so think carefully.
Pro Tip 3/3Implies Closure
The term often implies that the situation is nearing conclusion.
The negotiations entered the endgame.
Compare with
conclusionculmination
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Glenn Greenwald: Why...
But I'm wondering, for you personally, what is the endgame? At what point will you think, well, actually, we've succeeded in moving the dial? Well, I mean, the endgame for me as a journalist is very simple, which is to make sure that every single document that's newsworthy and that ought to be disclosed
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The joyful, perplexing...
we haven't slept in days, so everything is hilarious The tables are covered in piles of papers, of our notes and completed puzzles. The whiteboards are an unintelligible mess of three days' worth of insights. And we're stuck on two puzzles. If we could crack them, we would get into the endgame,
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Cradle to cradle design...
So if you don't have an endgame of something delightful, then you're just moving chess pieces around, if you don't know you're taking the king. So perhaps we could develop a strategy of change, which requires humility. And in my business as an architect,
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How augmented reality...
and it's created a condition for an age where information, ideas can be shared freely. But are these great accomplishments in digital technology really the endgame in terms of what can be achieved? I don't think so, and today I'd like to share with you
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Melinda French Gates:...
Luckily, the genetic testing proved that, in fact, this strand came north, because, had it come from the south, it would have had a much wider impact in terms of transmission. So many more people would have been affected. So what's the endgame?
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Amory Lovins: We must...
Whatever your reason for wanting to do this, whether you're concerned about national security or price volatility -- -- or jobs, or the planet, or your grand-kids, it seems to me that this is an oil endgame that we should all be playing to win.
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Can you solve the Big...
If you map them back to the original circle, standing to the immediate left of those final matter particles or the immediate right of final antiparticles means you’ll reach this endgame state and survive.
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How the worst moments in...
But its time has not yet come. And neutrality, which seems to lie halfway between despair and celebration, is actually the endgame. In 29 states in the US,
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Graham Hawkes: Fly the...
I think the future of this planet depends on humans, not technology, and we already have the knowledge -- we’re kind of at the endgame with knowledge.
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High and Low PIPE Ultimate...
finally on top the team spots the entrance to strandline canyon well that's our endgame right there you
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Glenn Greenwald: Why...
But I'm wondering, for you personally, what is the endgame? At what point will you think, well, actually, we've succeeded in moving the dial? Well, I mean, the endgame for me as a journalist is very simple, which is to make sure that every single document that's newsworthy and that ought to be disclosed
Video examples
The joyful, perplexing...
we haven't slept in days, so everything is hilarious The tables are covered in piles of papers, of our notes and completed puzzles. The whiteboards are an unintelligible mess of three days' worth of insights. And we're stuck on two puzzles. If we could crack them, we would get into the endgame,
Video examples
Cradle to cradle design...
So if you don't have an endgame of something delightful, then you're just moving chess pieces around, if you don't know you're taking the king. So perhaps we could develop a strategy of change, which requires humility. And in my business as an architect,
Video examples
How augmented reality...
and it's created a condition for an age where information, ideas can be shared freely. But are these great accomplishments in digital technology really the endgame in terms of what can be achieved? I don't think so, and today I'd like to share with you
Video examples
Melinda French Gates:...
Luckily, the genetic testing proved that, in fact, this strand came north, because, had it come from the south, it would have had a much wider impact in terms of transmission. So many more people would have been affected. So what's the endgame?
Video examples
Amory Lovins: We must...
Whatever your reason for wanting to do this, whether you're concerned about national security or price volatility -- -- or jobs, or the planet, or your grand-kids, it seems to me that this is an oil endgame that we should all be playing to win.
Video examples
Can you solve the Big...
If you map them back to the original circle, standing to the immediate left of those final matter particles or the immediate right of final antiparticles means you’ll reach this endgame state and survive.
Video examples
How the worst moments in...
But its time has not yet come. And neutrality, which seems to lie halfway between despair and celebration, is actually the endgame. In 29 states in the US,
Video examples
Graham Hawkes: Fly the...
I think the future of this planet depends on humans, not technology, and we already have the knowledge -- we’re kind of at the endgame with knowledge.
Video examples
High and Low PIPE Ultimate...
finally on top the team spots the entrance to strandline canyon well that's our endgame right there you
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Terry Pratchett
English Author
I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad?
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Johnny Christ
American Musician
The importance of first-week sales has kind of diminished, in our opinion, in the industry, and we don't really know what it really means anymore. It is what it is in the industry. And for us, it's all about the endgame, not where it begins.
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Debra Messing
American Actress
When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.
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Andre Leon Talley
American Editor
You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is not the endgame.
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Steve Toltz
Australian Novelist
I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.
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Ivanka Trump
American Businesswoman
Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.
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Lee Myung-bak
South Korean Statesman
The endgame is peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.
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Mark Ruffalo
American Actor
It's imperative that we opt out of the fossil fuel endgame.
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Benedict Cumberbatch
English Actor
Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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Raphael Bob-Waksberg
American Comedian
I think life doesn't necessarily have an endgame.
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Terry Pratchett
English Author
I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad?
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Johnny Christ
American Musician
The importance of first-week sales has kind of diminished, in our opinion, in the industry, and we don't really know what it really means anymore. It is what it is in the industry. And for us, it's all about the endgame, not where it begins.
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Debra Messing
American Actress
When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.
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Andre Leon Talley
American Editor
You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is not the endgame.
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Steve Toltz
Australian Novelist
I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.
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Ivanka Trump
American Businesswoman
Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.
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Lee Myung-bak
South Korean Statesman
The endgame is peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.
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Mark Ruffalo
American Actor
It's imperative that we opt out of the fossil fuel endgame.
Quote examples
Benedict Cumberbatch
English Actor
Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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Raphael Bob-Waksberg
American Comedian
I think life doesn't necessarily have an endgame.
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