final solution

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final solution¹

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Calque of German Endlösung, which is short for Endlösung der Judenfrage (“Final Solution to the Jewish Question”)

noun final solutions

  1. 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
  2. broadly Any similar attempted or successful genocide. Why such urgency and why suddenly a final solution in Xinjiang? […] Toward this objective, China's recent three supreme leaders, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and the incumbent Xi Jinping, all embrace such a new security agenda and engage in feverish Xinjiang ethnic pacification and military buildup campai
  3. 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.

Final Solution²

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  1. Alternative letter-case form of final solution (“attempted mass murder of the Jews by the Nazis”).

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noun planned and attempted mass murder of the European Jews

Españolsolución final
中文最終解決方案 /最终解决方案 zuìzhōng jiějué fāng'àn
Portuguêssolução final
Françaissolution finale
DeutschEndlösung
Русскийоконча́тельное реше́ние okončátelʹnoje rešénije
Tiếng ViệtGiải pháp cuối cùng

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@misc{final_solution_2026,
  title = {final solution},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/final%20solution},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}