Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Games The final stage of a chess game after most of the pieces have been removed from the board.
- n. The final stage of an extended process or course of events: the diplomatic endgame that led to the treaty.
Wiktionary
- n. The final stage of an extended process or course of events.
- n. chess The part of a chess game in which there are few pieces left.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the final stages of a chess game after most of the pieces have been removed from the board
- n. the final stages of an extended process of negotiation
Etymologies
- end + game (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Yet, I resist it, since the endgame is a balkanized society.”
“Guardian leads with what it calls the endgame of the war in Libya - and the fate of the key city of Sirte.”
“The defense chief also said the next president would receive the blame if the "endgame" is not handled correctly.”
Gates: Next president likely to take 'sensible approach' to Iraq
“Qxg6+ the rook endgame is hopeless; or 37. b4 axb4 38.”
The Huffington Post: Lubomir Kavalek: Ivanchuk Dominates Chess Olympiad
“The endgame is here, and the Government are going to win.”
“Will investors trust them, or will they start to worry that the endgame is either inflation or default, two tried-and-true ways other countries have escaped their debts?”
The Washington Post: Think this economy is bad? Wait for 2012.
“Norman Osborn†™ s endgame is revealed as the Marvel Universe finds itself irrevocably changed and not everyone survives!”
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“A sensible approach to the endgame is more likely to be accomplished by Obama since McCain has been in bed with George Bush for this long-dragging hopeless war!”
Gates: Next president likely to take 'sensible approach' to Iraq
“Kris might date Matt first this season, but the endgame is obviously Kris and Junior.”
“WASHINGTON Both political parties are making huge last-minute cash infusions into close House and Senate races, underscoring their traditional importance in endgame spending and the Democrats 'new financial competitiveness with Republicans.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘endgame’.
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Thresholds
we are all just passing through.
(boundaries, portals and liminal spaces/times)cockcrow, interface, thin line, portal, postern, littoral, interstice, port, membrane, skin, crepuscule, dawn and 309 more...
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Last Words
Endings, results, and pinnacles. The ideal here is to somehow imply the paradoxical concept of "after-endings".
consequence, aftermath, finality, outcome, postmundane, endgame, redound, cloture, bourne, meridian, memento mori, psychopomp and 72 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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die6die's Words
somnambulist, obfuscate, hirsute, kleptobibliomania, serendipitous, dissuade, duplicitous, zounds, lo, unleash, fortnight, thaumaturgy and 278 more...
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Watchmen (2009)
Words from 2009 'Watchmen' film.
adversary, certitude, deterrent, stockpile, posturing, minuteman, vigilante, toss, flip, spook, carcass, tread and 174 more...
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chesspark's Words
gambit, en passant, strategy, exchange, attack, resign, draw, check, endgame, protect, threat, win and 31 more...
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words from chess
chess, chessmen, king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, pawn, opening, fianchetto, attack, defense and 31 more...
Tweets
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seanahan The end of a chess game. Usually most of the pieces are off the board except for a few pawns and one or two larger pieces. Feb 20, 2007