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end game

–noun
1. Chess. the final stage of a game, usually following the exchange of queens and the serious reduction of forces.
2. the late or final stages of any activity: the end game of the negotiations.
Also, endgame.


Origin:
1880–85
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end·game also end game   (ěnd'gām')   
n.  
  1. Games The final stage of a chess game after most of the pieces have been removed from the board.

  2. The final stage of an extended process or course of events: the diplomatic endgame that led to the treaty.

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