endgame

/ ˈɛndˌɡeɪm /

noun

1. Also called: ending. the closing stage of a game of chess, in which only a few pieces are left on the board

2. the closing stage of any of certain other games

Example Sentences

In my view, the Basel endgame isn’t America’s endgame.

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But he also said something that has a deep relevance to the endgame in this group.

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Ben Hockett, the only one of the three who had worked inside a big Wall Street firm, also tended to travel very quickly in his mind to some catastrophic endgame.

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It feels like the desired endgame is an overthrow of existing regimes for a more squishy communal paradise.

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In the aftermath, Scott Robertson, the All Blacks coach, was asked what the endgame was all about and he mentioned the word "clutch".

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