final solution — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. The planned and attempted mass murder of the European Jews by the Nazis; the Holocaust.

   Gebrauch

   • capitalized
   • historisch
   • often

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   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.

2. Any similar attempted or successful genocide.

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   • broadly

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   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 campaigns, with each of the three leaders having his own landmark event in implementing this Xinjiang final solution.

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see final, solution.

   Verwandte Wörter

   Jewish Question

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   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.

   Thus to argue that there is no final solution to this problem would be a disguised form of pretentious finality, [...]