final solution
nounEtymology Calque of German Endlösung, which is short for Endlösung der Judenfrage (“Final Solution to the Jewish Question”)
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Capitalized, Historical, Often The planned and attempted mass murder of the European Jews by the Nazis; the Holocaust.
- Criticizing China’s actions alone is not enough. The United States, which at first called the Nazis' Final Solution a "war rumor," according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, must not make the same mistake again. The United States cannot stand idly by and let its economic relationship with Beijing cloud its judgment.2019, Grace Funk, “Opinion: The U.S. should do more to stop China's reeducation camps”, in Los Angeles Times:
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Broadly Any similar attempted or successful genocide.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see final, solution.
- Each mol of nitric acid gives three mol of nitrous acid which is therefore present in the final solution to the amount of 0.048 mol per liter.1911, Gilbert N. Lewis, Arthur Edgar, “The Equilibrium between nitric acid, nitrous acid and nitric oxide”, in The Journal of the American Chemical Society, volume 33, page 297:
- Thus to argue that there is no final solution to this problem would be a disguised form of pretentious finality, [...]1975, Bernard D. den Ouden, Language and Creativity: an interdisciplinary essay in Chomskyan humanism, →ISBN, page 8:
- Related terms
- Jewish Question