Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A conclusion or termination.
- noun A concluding part; a finale.
- noun Grammar The final morpheme added to a word base to make an inflectional form, such as –ed in walked.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of bringing or coming to an end; termination, as of life; conclusion.
- noun In grammar, the terminating syllable or letter of a word; the termination, whether of declension, of conjugation, or of derivation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Termination; concluding part; result; conclusion; destruction; death.
- noun (Gram.) The final syllable or letter of a word; the part joined to the stem. See 3d
Case , 5. - noun day of death.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
end . - noun A
termination orconclusion . - noun The last part of something.
- noun grammar The last
morpheme of aword , added to somebase to make aninflected form (such as -ing in "ending").
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of ending something
- noun event whose occurrence ends something
- noun the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
- noun the last section of a communication
- noun the point in time at which something ends
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Indonesia is one step away from its first investment-grade credit rating in more than a decade as Yudhoyono targets growth of as much as 6.6 percent on average through the remainder of his term ending in 2014.
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Indonesia is one step away from its first investment-grade credit rating in more than a decade, as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono targets growth of as much as 6.6 percent on average through the remainder of his term ending in 2014.
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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is aiming for annual average GDP growth of 6.6 percent through the remainder of his term ending in 2014, partly by boosting spending on roads, railways and ports.
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Yudhoyono targets growth of as much as 6.6 percent on average through the remainder of his term ending in 2014.
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Yudhoyono aims to expand Southeast Asia's largest economy at an annual average rate of 6.6 percent through the remainder of his term ending in 2014, partly by boosting investment in roads, railways and ports.
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The Nomination and Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors proposes to the Annual General Meeting that the current Board members Seppo Paatelainen, Petri Niemisvirta, Timo Aukia, Kai Seikku, Erkki Solja, Catharina Stackelberg-Hammarén and Harri Suutari be re-elected to the Board of Directors for the term ending at the close of the following ordinary annual general meeting.
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The Board of Directors, based on Audit Committee's motion, proposes that the Annual General Meeting elects Public Accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy as the company's Auditor for the term ending at the closing of the Annual General Meeting of 2013.
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The Committee proposes to the Annual General Meeting that the current Board members Seppo Paatelainen, Timo Aukia, Petri Niemisvirta, Kai Seikku, Erkki Solja, Catharina Stackelberg-Hammarén and Harri Suutari be re-elected to the Board of Directors for the term ending at the close of the following ordinary annual general meeting.
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Peter-Why is the Sam Worthing part in the title ending in a question mark when James Cameron basically proved he was it?
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Whatever “romantic” meant, I knew it had to be at night, involve my wife and include a word ending with the suffix “lit.”
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