completion.

1. The act or state of bringing a process, task or work to its end.

2. The successful reception of a forward pass in American football.

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Words that belong together

• completion of a project
• completion date

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Completion of the project preceded the independent assessment of its results.

The completion date changed when the final inspection was delayed.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable for finishing; singular completion and plural completions for completed football passes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: requirements and constraints, institutional organization, formal assessment, system properties. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis, institutional studies. Commonness: moderately common.