Other forms: finalised, finalising, finalises
To finalise is to settle the last details. Finalise the plans, finalise the deal, nothing is finalised.
It was resisted for decades as ugly American business jargon and is now entirely ordinary, which is the usual fate of such objections. This is the British spelling; American writing has finalize. Nothing has been finalised is a useful way of saying nothing has been agreed.
1verbfinaliseTo settle the last details.
“We need to finalise the guest list before we send the invitations.”
finalise is a settling.
Also accepted in games: finalize
Latin
fīnālis — of or relating to the end or to boundaries
Old French
final
Middle English
final
English
final
English, today
finalise
Built from
From final + -ise. final comes from Middle English final, fynal, fynall, from Old French final, from Latin fīnālis (“of or relating to the end or to boundaries”), from fīnis (“end”); see fine. Replaced native English endly (“final”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA