Conclude

Definition: Conclude

Conclude

Verb

1. Decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house".

2. Bring to a close; "The committee concluded the meeting".

3. Reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation.

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Date "conclude" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Conclude

Compact

Make a bargain, strike a bargain; come to terms, come to an understanding; compromise; set at rest; close, close with; conclude, complete, settle; confirm, ratify, clench, subscribe, underwrite; endorse, indorse; put the seal to; sign, seal; (attest); indent.

End

Verb: end, close, finish, terminate, conclude, be all over; expire; die; come-, draw- to a -close; Noun: have run its course; run out, pass away. bring to an -end; Noun: put an end to, make an end of; determine; get through; achieve; (complete); stop; (make to cease); shut up shop; hang up one's fiddle.

Judgment

Verb: judge, conclude; come to a conclusion, draw a conclusion, arrive at a conclusion; ascertain, determine, make up one's mind.

Resolution

Verb: have determination; Noun: know one's own mind; be resolved; Adjective: make up one's mind, will, resolve, determine; decide; (judgment); form a determination, come to a determination, come to a resolution, come to a resolve; conclude, fix, seal, determine once for all, bring to a crisis, drive matters to an extremity; take a decisive step; (choice); take upon oneself; (undertake).

Crosswords: Conclude

Latin (compose, conclude, construct, deduce, define, finish, imply, infer), Romanian (induce).

Books

• Measuring Power Frequency Fields: What Can We Conclude from Measurements of Power Frequency: Part 2 (reference)

• Summary report of the Australian Delegation to the Plenipotentiary Conference to Conclude an International Convention on Trade in Certain Species of Wildlife, Washington, D.C., 12 February-2 March, 1973 (reference)

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Diagram of experiment with prisms that led Newton to conclude light is a mixture of differently refrangible rays; with surrounding text. Credit: Library of Congress.

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And thus much may suffice to shew, that as far as we have any light from history, we have reason to conclude, that all peaceful beginnings of government have been laid in the consent of the people. (Second Treatise of Government)

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. (reference)

The Tribunal may adopt such rules of procedure as shall be in accordance with justice and equity and decide the order and time at which each party must conclude its arguments, and may arrange all formalities required for dealing with the evidence. (reference)

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. (reference)

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And I shall conclude with a few Experiments

Then you conclude, my grandam, he is dead

In the mean time I here conclude the second part of my unfortunate voyages

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Health

Reviews on HIV prevention conclude that programs produce significant effects, but a statistical advantage may not necessarily equate to meaningful change. (references)

Current evidence does not allow one to conclude that comparable causality exists between the presence of high levels of plasma triglyceride and coronary heart disease. (references)

Some might think that the best investigation method would be just to culture all the leftover foods in the kitchen, and conclude that the one that is positive is the one that caused the outbreak. (references)

Business

Trade representatives may not engage in direct sales nor conclude deals, but they may engage in sales promotion and marketing, or do market research and provide technical advice. (references)

However, judging by such indirect factor as the general growth of the domestic production over the last two years, we can conclude that certain growth of home health care and rehabilitation products and equipment market took place over the same period. (references)

However, in 2000, the RTAF was able to conclude a successful deal in acquiring sixteen used F-16 air defense fighter jets from the United States for US$136 million, utilizing the unused funds deposited at the Federal Reserve Bank toward the purchase of F-18 fighter jets, a purchase that was cancelled because of the economic crisis. (references)

Civil Liberties

Hong Kong

The Basic Law requires that the Government enact legislation prohibiting "treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the Central People's Government, or theft of state secrets." The process of developing this legislation continues with no indication of when it will conclude. (references)

Economic History

Chile

Chile hopes to conclude a free trade agreement with the European Union in 2002. (references)

Trinidad

A foreign investor is free to conclude representation, agency, distribution, and franchising agreements with Trinidad and Tobago nationals. (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

Almost without exception, the police investigators conclude that suspects were resisting arrest. (references)

Guatemala

In some of these cases, evidence was not sufficient to conclude whether the killing was politically motivated. (references)

Burundi

The Government did not conclude its investigation into reports that in December 1999 soldiers shot and killed an unarmed FRODEBU Hutu parliamentarian or its investigation into reports that government soldiers killed 50 persons in August 1999, in Kanyosha. (references)

Political Economy

Colombia

The U.S. and Colombia hope to conclude a Bilateral Investment Treaty. (references)

Bulgaria

The presidency is empowered to conclude international treaties and to schedule parliamentary (or National Assembly) elections. (references)

REPUBLIC OF KOREA

The United States and Korea are negotiating these and other investment issues in the effort to conclude a bilateral investment treaty (BIT). (references)

Political Rights

Morocco

The fraud and government pressure tactics led most independent observers to conclude that the election results were heavily influenced, if not predetermined, by the Government. (references)

Trade

Honduras

It must always conclude that there is reasonable assurance of repayment on every transaction financed. (references)

Nigeria

A representative office however, cannot engage in business or conclude contracts or open or negotiate any letters of credit. (references)

Travel

Ecuador

In the event of a full-scale eruption, geological experts conclude that the city of Quito is protected from possible lava flows, avalanches, and lateral explosions by the bulk of Pichincha Mountain, which stands between the city and the volcano crater. (references)

Women

Mauritania

Experts previously estimated that between 60 and 70 percent of women experienced gavage but now conclude that very few Moor women continue to experience gavage. (references)

Worker Rights

Russia

As a result, the right to conclude a collective agreement is not protected. (references)

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Expressions using "conclude": conclude an agreement ♦ conclude into ♦ conclude smth. from smth.. Additional references.

Afrikaans

beklink (dispatch, expedite, finish, settle), afwikkel (dispatch, expedite, finish, liquidate, settle, unroll, unwind, wind off). (various references)

Albanian

vendos (arrange, be determined, Canton, choose, compose, dare, decide, determine, dispose, elect, elicit, emplace, establish, fix, house, induct, instal, install, instate, judge, lay, locate, make up one's mind, place, propose, put, quarter, recline, resolve, rule, seat, set, settle, situate, station, Stow, take the plunge, will), përfundoj (accomplish, bring closer, button up, clinch, close, come out, complete, determine, do, end, finalize, finish, finish off, fulfil, fulfill, lapse, perfect, push through, put through, reason, result, terminate, touch up, transact, wear), nxjerr përfundim (gather, infer), nxjerr (belch, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), konkludoj (infer). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرغ (be empty, become empty, complete, discharge, drain, dry out, empty, end, evacuate, finalize, finish, pour, terminate, vacate, void), ‏قرر (affirm, be decided, be determined, be resolved to, choose, condition, decide, destine, determine, dispose, establish, figure, figure out, fix, make acknowledge, make confess, make up one's mind, plump for, propose, regulate, resolve, rule, set, settle, state), ‏توصل الى قرار, ‏عقد (act, agreement, bead, cast, charter, compact, complicate, congeal, contract, convene, convention, covenant, decade, deed, draw, embarrass, engagement, entangle, hitch, hold, indent, instrument, knitting, knot, lease, muckrake, muddy, pact, perplex, promise, ravel, vault, vaulting, writing), ‏ختم (cachet, chop, close, frank, impress, impression, imprint, round off, seal, seal ring, sealing, set one's hand to, sign off, signet, stamp, stamp about, stamping, subscribe, wind up, wrap up), ‏جمل (beautify, bedeck, camel, embellish, enhance, finalize, garnish, improve, ornament, outline, precis, prettify, pretty, refine, smarten, sum up, summarize, totalize, varnish), ‏إستفاد (avail, avail oneself of, benefit, benefit by, capitalize, deduce, improve, profit), ‏إستنتج (deduce, deduct, derive, draw, draw conclusions, educe, estimate, induce, infer, put two and two together, ratiocinate, understand), ‏إختتم (break up, round off, seal), ‏أنهى (call a halt, close, complete, compose, cut, determine, dissolve, do, end, finish, fulfil, fulfill, last, last out, round off, terminate, top, wind up, wrap up). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сключвам (clench, consummate, contract, interlock, strike), решавам (adjudicate, choose, decide, determine, elect, figure out, make up one's mind, resolve, seal, settle, solve, work), заключавам (educe, gather, induce, infer, reason), завършвам (accomplish, carry through, complete, crown, end, end up, eventuate, finish, perfect, round, round off, round out, terminate, wind up), приключвам (determine, end, end off, get over, sign off, top off, wind up, work out). (various references)

Chinese 

� 結 , �"束 (Concluded, Concluding, Ended, finish, Overly). (various references)

Czech

zakonèit (wind up), uzavřít (block off, cage up, close down, encase, obturate, shut down, shut up, terminate, tie, transact), usuzovat (deduce, reason, understand), ukonèit (bring to an end, close, finish, put an end, terminate), skonèit (achieve, be over, be through, call it a day, close, come to an end, complete, dismiss, end up, fetch up, find, finish). (various references)

Danish

myndighed, der har kompetence til at indgaa ansaettelseskontrakten (authority empowered to conclude contracts of employment). (various references)

Dutch

afwikkelen (dispatch, expedite, finish, finnish, liquidate, settle, unroll, unwind, wind off), afhandelen (compose, dispatch, expedite, finish, finnish, settle), afdoen (dispatch, expedite, finish, finnish, put off, settle, take off). (various references)

Esperanto

findecidi (compose, dispatch, settle), finaranĝi (dispatch, expedite, finnish, settle). (various references)

Farsi 

منعقدکردن (Close), نتیجه گرفتن (Deduce, Derive, Gather), استنتاج کردن (Derive, Evolve, Induce, Infer, Subsume), بپایان رساندن (Consummate, End, Terminate). (various references)

Finnish

tehdä johtopäätös (abstract, deduce, draw a conclusion, gather, induce, infer), puhua loppuun (speak to the end), päättää jotakin jostakin (infer from), päättää (bring to an end, decide, end, terminate), päätellä (draw conclusions, infer), lopettaa (close, complete, destroy, end, finish, leave, put down, put to sleep, stop). (various references)

French

conclure (draw conclusions), concluons, concluez, concluent, clôture (conclusion), terminer, se résoudre � (compose), profiter de, parvenir � une fin, finir (come to an end, complete), décider (condition), achever (compass, consummate). (various references)

Frisian

ôfhannelje (dispatch, expedite, finish, liquidate, settle). (various references)

German

beenden (accomodate, adjourn, be at the end of one's tether, bring to an end, cancel, cease, complete, determine, discontinue, end, exit, finalize, finish, serve out, stop, terminate, to break up, to conclude, to determine, to finalize, to finish, to finite, to truncate, unquote), abschließen (balance, close, complete, effect, end, end off, finish, lay, lock, lock up, place, sell, serve out, settle, shutoff, take out, to close, to conclude, to lock, transact, write). (various references)

Greek 

καταλήγω (abut, become, end up, redound, result, turn out), συμπεραίνω (conjecture, deduce, infer, presume), τελειώνω (be through, break up, complete, draw in, end, end up, finish, get through). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"סתים (end, finish, pass, run out, terminate), ל�'מור (catch up on, cease, complete, end, finish, terminate), לסים (close, end, finish, terminate, top off, wind up), לסכם (amount, finalize, precis, summarize, totalize, wind up), ל� עול (bolt down, close, lock, secure). (various references)

Hungarian

megköt (cord, knit up, skid, strike up, tie, to belay, to clench, to clinch, to conclude, to consolidate, to get hard, to harden, to knit up, to lace, to lash, to strike up, to tie, transact, trig), következtet (deduce, draw conclusions, infer, to conclude, to conjecture, to deduce, to evolve, to infer, to judge, to reason), elhatároz (decide, determine, make up one's mind, to decree, to determine, to fix on, to make a resolution, to set forth, to set out), befejez (call it a day, cease, complete, end, finish, get through, knock off, perfect, round off, terminate, to accomplish, to carry through, to clear off, to close, to conclude, to end, to finish off, to make good, to perfect, to polish off, to round off, to sign off, to terminate, to wind, wound). (various references)

Indonesian

menutup (close, shut, turn off), menjadikan (bring into being, make into something), mengakhiri (abolish, assuage, end, terminate), berkesimpulan (have a conclusion). (various references)

Italian

finire (accomodate, accomplish, cease, close, complete, do, end, expire, finish, get to, kill, pass, run out, sell out, spend, stop, terminate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

取り結ぶ (to tie up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

とりむすぶ (to tie up). (various references)

Korean 

종결하십시�" (terminate). (various references)

Manx

cur kione er (disposal, finish, roof), cur jerrey er (cry off, discontinue, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, finish, resolve, sweep away), creaghnaghey (accomplish, complete). (various references)

Pig Latin

oncludecay.(various references)

Portuguese

concluir (abstract, accomplish, close, complete, deduce, end, gather, imply, induce, reason, reckon, terminate), concla, resolver (choose, compose, decide, deem, dissolve, figure out, find, fix, iron out, mean, nail down, resolve, settle, solve, unravel, unriddle, work out), inferir (abstract, below, collect, deduce, educe, follow, gather, imply, induce, infer), firmar acordo, finalizar (accomodate, end, finalize, finish, phase out, terminate, tie up loose ends), fazer terminar, acabar (accomodate, buzz, carry through, cease, come to an end, consummate, end, expire, finish, phase out, round, squelch, terminate). (various references)

Romanian

concluziona (compose, dispatch, settle), conchide (gather, infer), trage la concluzie, termina (accomodate, accomplish, achieve, bring to an end, clear up, close, complete, do, end, finish, get over, have done, liquidate, mop up, pack it in, shoot away, spend, stop, terminate, wind up), stabili (appoint, arrange, ascertain, assess, calm, clinch, constitute, decree, determine, erect, establish, fix, institute, introduce, lay down, Lodge, measure, nail down, name, nominate, regulate, set, set out, settle, spot, state, verify), sfârşi (close, complete, end, exhaust, finish, put an end to, stop), perfecta, isprãvi (close, complete, do, end, finish, mop up), hotãrî (appoint, decide, destine, determine, fix, give, judge, make, persuade, resolve, rule, seal, settle, state, stipulate, will), face (achieve, act, anoint, appoint, be, be up to smth., bear, build, carry out, commit, compose, cook, cost, create, cut, dispense, do, does, draw, drive, effect, form, give, give forth, grow, happen, have, hold, induce, it does, keep, lead, leave, let, make, move, perform, perpetrate, persuade, prepare, produce, prompt, render, say, scoop in, strike, work, write, yield), deduce (argue, collect, deduce, deduct, draw, educe, evolve, gather, induce, infer), aranja (adjust, arrange, clench, compose, compound, concert, contrive, dispose, do, do out, engineer, fiddle, fix, fix up, impose, juggle, Marshal, order, organize, pose, posture, put in order, put to rights, put up, set, set out, set to rights, settle, size, stage, Stow, straighten, suit, tidy, tidy up, trim), încheia (clench, clinch, close, combine, contract, do up, drive, end, enter, fasten, finish, fix, peg down, perfect, put through, strike). (various references)

Russian 

решать;конт)заключать (concluded), решать (decide, determine, elect, judge, make up ~ mind, make up one's mind, resolve, settle, solve, solved, solves, work out), заканчиваться (end, result in), заканчивать (bring to an end, close, complete, end, end off, end up, finalize, finish, write up), заключать (confine, encompass, establish, inclose, inclosing, include, infer, nail down, transact), заключить (clinch a bargain, infer), делать вывод (deduce, draw a conclusion, draw conclusion, gather, infer, reason). (various references)

Scottish

comh-dhùin (bring to an end). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaključiti (close, gather, induce, infer, sign, take out), rešiti (decide, eventuate, solve, thrash out, untangle, work), odlučiti (choose, chose, decide, decree, determine, resolve, set one's mind on doing smth., settle, will). (various references)

Spanish

despachar (attend to, despatch, dismiss, dispatch, dispose of, expedite, finish, sack, see to, send, send off, serve, settle, ship, toss off, transmit, turn away). (various references)

Swedish

avsluta (balance, close, end, finalize, finish, finish off, terminate, transact). (various references)

Turkish

sonuçlanmak (be at an end, be concluded, come out, culminate, end, end up, eventuate, finish, go, issue, redound, turn out, work out), sonuçlandırmak (accomplish, bring to an issue, finalize, get through, leave off, put a period to, snuff out), sonuç çıkarmak (deduce, educe, induce, infer, make inferences, reason), karara varmak (arrive at a decision, come to a decision, determine, find, judge, make a decision, make up one's mind, resolve, rule, take a decision), bitmek (adore, be at an end, be out of smth., be very fond of, break off, break up, cease, come to an end, die down, drop, end, end off, end up, expire, fag, finish, lapse, lay off, leave off, quit, run out, sprout, stop, surcease, terminate, vegetate, wear out), bitirmek (break up, bring to an end, bring to completion, call it off, carry through, cease, clean up, clear off, close, complete, consume, deplete, drink, end, end off, exhaust, expend, fetch up, finish, fulfil, fulfill, get through, graduate, leave off, make an end of, play out, point, polish off, put a stop to, put an end to, put through, round out, run out, sign off, snuff out, swallow up, terminate, use up, wind up, work off, wrap it up), anlaşma yapmak (enter into an agreement with smb., make a deal). (various references)

Ukrainian

укладати (bundle, compile, effect, inset, put, transact), робити висновок (deduce, draw a conclusion, educe, elicit, gather, infer), вирішувати (appoint, arbitrate, aread, choose, decide, decree, elect, resolve, settle, solve), закінчуватися (elapse, end, end off, end up, go out, issue, result in, run out, terminate, wane, waste), закінчувати (close, complete, finalize, round off, top off), завершуватися (eventuate, finish, ultimate), завершувати (accomplish, cap, carry out, close, consummate, finish off, fulfil, integrate, perfect, round, ultimate, wind up). (various references)

Welsh

gorffen (achieve, complete, finish), diweddu (end, finish), dibennu (end, finish). (various references)

claudamus, claudat, claude, claudent, claudentur, clauderetur, claudet, claudetur, claudeturque, claudi, claudit, clauditis, clausa, clausae, clausas, clauserat, clauserit, clausero, clauserunt, clausi, clausis, clausisset, clausit, clausitque, clauso, clausos, clausum, clausus, claususque, clude, cludendi, cludentur, cludere, cludit, cluserit, cluserunt, cluseruntque, clusit, cluso, clusum, clusuris, conclude, concludens, concludent, concludere, concluderet, concludes, concludi, concluditur, conclusae, concluserant, concluserat, concluserint, concluseris, concluserunt, conclusi, conclusis, conclusisset, conclusisti, conclusit, conclusus, conclususque, coniecto, disterminans, infero, iudica, iudicabant, iudicabat, iudicabimini, iudicabimus, iudicabis, iudicabit, iudicabitur, iudicabo, iudicabor, iudicabunt, iudicamur, iudicando, iudicandos, iudicandum, iudicans, iudicant, iudicante, iudicantes, iudicanti, iudicantur, iudicare, iudicarent, iudicarentur, iudicaret, iudicaretur, iudicari, iudicas, iudicasset, iudicasti, iudicastis, iudicat, iudicata, iudicate, iudicati, iudicatis, iudicatum, iudicatur, iudicaturus, iudicatus, iudicaverint, iudicaverit, iudicaveritis, iudicaverunt, iudicavi, iudicavimus, iudicavit, iudicavitque, iudicem, iudicemur, iudicemus, iudicent, iudicentur, iudicer, iudices, iudicet, iudicetur, iudico, iudicor, terminat, termino. (various references)

betynan. (various references)

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Derivations

Words beginning with "conclude": concluded, concluder, concluders, concludes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Conclude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Conacuid, concludue, concludwe, conclue, iconoclue. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: conduce, occlude.

-2 letters: cloned, louden, nodule.

-3 letters: clone, cloud, clued, codec, coden, coled, coned, coude, could, dolce, douce, dunce, loden, olden, ounce, uncle, unled.

-4 letters: clod, clon, clue, code, coed, cold, cole, cone, cued, deco, dole, done, duce, duel, dune, enol, lend, leno, leud, lode, lone, loud, luce, lude, lune, node, noel, nude, once.

+1 letter: concluded, concluder, concludes.

+2 letters: concluders, leucocidin.

+3 letters: cocounseled, conductible, leucocidins, uncoalesced, uncollected, unconcealed.

+4 letters: cocounselled, conduplicate, nucleocapsid, radiolucency, unchronicled, unreconciled.

+5 letters: coeducational, nucleocapsids, uncomplicated, unconcernedly.