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completion

UK/kəmˈpliː.ʃən/US/kəmˈpliː.ʃən/
nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,771 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: completions

Completion is the finishing of something. On completion, the completion date, near completion.

In buying a house it is the exact moment the money changes hands and the keys are yours, which is a different day from exchange of contracts. On completion is the standard contractual phrase for when something becomes due.

Definitions of completion

  1. 1nouncompletionThe finishing of something.B2

    “The new bridge is due for completion next spring.”

completion is a finishing.

Where it comes from

Latin completio comes from complere, to fill up — com plus plere, to fill. Complete and plenty are relatives.

  1. Latin

    completio

  2. English, today

    completion

Built from

  • compleo · Latin — to fill up, complete

Latin completio, from compleo (“to fill up, complete”). by surface analysis, complet(e) + complete + ion.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

completion in the wild

  • Over the course of his 16-season NFL career, Anderson led the league in passer rating four times, completion percentage three times and passing yards twice.

    Ken Anderson (quarterback)

  • Upon mastering the generation stage, the practitioner proceeds to the completion stage.

    Deity yoga

  • The record for completion percentage in a season is held by Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints who completed 74.4% of his passes in 2018.

    List of NFL annual pass completion percentage leaders

  • Already behind its original target completion date of October 2018, it was being built by Carillion.

    Midland Metropolitan University Hospital

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the compleo family

complycompletioncompliancecomplement

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