英语词汇finalize的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

finalize. Finalize, despite the objections of many critics, is recognized by most dictionaries and has been current in both American and British English for about half a century in both formal and casual writing. Such formations as neutralize, mini- mize, and generalize don’t seem to bother people, but finalize rankles many, perhaps because most critics believe it is a pre- tentious bureaucratic synonym for “to complete.” But it has a meaning different from “complete.” It means “to put into a final form a set of conclusions that has been agreed upon roughly through a preceding series of discussions or actions.”

词汇	finalize
词源	finalize. Finalize, despite the objections of many critics, is recognized by most dictionaries and has been current in both American and British English for about half a century in both formal and casual writing. Such formations as neutralize, mini- mize, and generalize don’t seem to bother people, but finalize rankles many, perhaps because most critics believe it is a pre- tentious bureaucratic synonym for “to complete.” But it has a meaning different from “complete.” It means “to put into a final form a set of conclusions that has been agreed upon roughly through a preceding series of discussions or actions.”
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