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finishing

verbnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈfɪnɪʃɪŋ//

The act of completing something.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of finishpresent participle and gerund of finish

noun

  1. 1

    The act of completing something.

  2. 2

    Shooting ability.

    That guy's a slow and lazy player, but he's got excellent finishing.

    Benítez's team had been subjected to some intense pressure and will be grateful that Benfica's finishing was not as refined as their buildup play. Jorge Jesus's side pinned them back at times but they were guilty of being too elaborate in front of goal.

  3. 3

    The final work upon or ornamentation of a thing; finish.

Forms

plural
finishings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).