endgame
pronunciation
How to pronounce endgame in British English:
UK [ˈendgeɪm]
How to pronounce endgame in American English:
US [ˈɛndˌɡem]
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- Noun:
- the final stages of an extended process of negotiation
- the final stages of a chess game after most of the pieces have been removed from the board
Word Origin
- endgame (n.)
- also end-game, 1850, in chess, from end + game (n.). There is no formal or exact definition of it in chess, but it begins when most of the pieces have been cleared from the board.
Example
- 1. But the endgame started with the collapse of trust in the trading business at enron 's core .
- 2. The endgame in afghanistan casts a gloomy shadow , too .
- 3. This may be because she expects to win , and to have to oversee america 's endgame in iraq .
- 4. But as the regime enters an endgame that could get still bloodier , it is politically incoherent to mount such a diplomatic offensive while outsourcing the arming of the rebels to gulf states .
- 5. Gordon brown , the uk prime minister , said : " I believe this is the endgame for the trade talks ... I think we are in touching distance . "