completionnoun [ U ]
uk/kəmˈpliː.ʃən/us/kəmˈpliː.ʃən/C1 the act of finishing something that you are doing or making:
You'll be paid on completion of the project.
The road repair work is nearing completion (= almost finished).
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- The original completion date was over-ambitious, so we have had to delay the opening by six months.
- Two decades intervened between the completion of the design and the opening of the theatre.
- I'm pleased to say the project is nearing completion.
- The cost of completion has been revised upwards again due to inflation.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Ends and endings
- accomplishment
- break
- break up
- cessation
- coda
- culminate
- death
- demise
- denouement
- deus ex machina
- end
- ending
- expiry
- fag
- finalize
- finish
- it'll (all) end in tears idiom
- last hurrah
- later
- termination
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