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finisher
UK /ˈfɪnɪʃə/ US /ˈfɪnɪʃɚ/
noun 5
Collocations
3ADJ.
greatest
VERB + FINISHER
works
FINISHER + NOUN
oft
Definitions
noun
1
A person who finishes or completes something.
The early finishers waited for the other runners to reach the finish line.
He became the best finsher for Australia's T20I team.
2
A person who applies a finish to something, such as furniture.
3
The person who applies the gilding and decoration in bookbinding.
If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.
4
A construction machine used to smooth a newly constructed road surface.
5
The blow that ends a fight; the knock-out blow.
A thundering right to the head bent him back over the ropes, and then, just as I was setting myself for the finisher, I felt somebody jerking my pants leg […]
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noun — (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the la
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The early finishers waited for the other runners to reach the finish line.
Wiktionary02
He became the best finsher for Australia's T20I team.
Wiktionary03
He that of greatest works is finisher Oft does them by the weakest minister […]
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