endgame

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endgame

The final stages of a process, development, or activity. An allusion to the last stage in chess, when the majority of pieces have been removed from the board. The two companies began the endgame of their historic, multi-billion-dollar merger deal.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Bipin	-	Indian, Marathi, Hindi
Ioannu	-	Old Church Slavic
Maia (1)	MAY-ə (English), MIE-ə (English)	Greek Mythology, Roman Mythology, Portuguese, Georgian
Nevukhadnetztzar	-	Biblical Hebrew
Ulriikka	OOL-ree:k-kah	Finnish (Rare)
Caroline	ka-ro-LEEN (French), KER-ə-lien (English), KER-ə-lin (English), KAR-ə-lien (English), KAR-ə-lin (English)	French, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch