concluding

kuhn-KLOO-ding/kənˈkluːdɪŋ/

Noun pluralconcludings

4 meanings of concluding

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1
adjective
Coming at the end; forming the final part of something.
Like the final whistle that brings a game to its end.
The concluding chapter ties together every loose thread in the novel.
In his concluding remarks, the senator called for unity.
Similarfinal, closing, last
Oppositeopening, introductory, initial, first
2
verb
Present participle and gerund of conclude.
The committee is concluding its review of the proposal this week.
By concluding the meeting early, she gave everyone time to prepare.
Note
Conclude works both without and with an object, and so does this form: the talks are concluding, but she is concluding the talks. When the meaning is reaching a decision, it takes a clause, as in concluding that the plan had failed. As a gerund it can still take a direct object. That sets it apart from the countable noun, whose plural is concludings.
3
nouncountable
An end or close; a final decision or judgment reached.
He who obeys not the good Shepherd of the soul and heart has an untruthful mind; a mind filled with fallacies; a mind of wrong resolvings and concludings.
1965, Ann Ree Colton, The soul and the ethic
Similarconclusion, end, close
Oppositebeginning
Note
Counted and pluralized, the word turns judgments into a series. Ann Ree Colton's The Soul and the Ethic (1965) speaks of "a mind of wrong resolvings and concludings." Paired with resolvings, it stresses the repeated mental act rather than a single result. Where one settled judgment is meant, conclusion is the ordinary choice.

Less common meaning

4
adjectiveobsolete
Convincing enough to settle a matter decisively.
But if such Persons chafe and are angry, and so go from you, 'tis to me a very concluding Argument that they are not as yet very fit to be Members of the Community of Christ's Church.
1719, Thomas Davye, Joseph Stokes
Note
An older way of saying that an argument clinches the case, not merely that it ends it. Thomas Davye and Joseph Stokes, in The Baptism of Adult Believers Only (1719), call an angry walkout "a very concluding Argument." The sense is obsolete. Use conclusive or decisive today, because a modern reader will hear the "final" meaning and take a concluding argument to be simply the last one.

concluding is a form of conclude

conclude, verb: To bring something to an end; to close or finish it. Full entry

Forms: concludeconcludes he/she/itconcluding -ing formconcluded past tense, past participle
Spelling: conclude → concluding: drop the e, add -ing

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