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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

encerramento

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ẽ.se.ʁaˈsẽ.tu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Wind-up/ˈwaɪndˌʌp/
nounadjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O encerramento da conferência foi excelente."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The act of ending or concluding something, or the final stages of an event, process, or activity.

    "In the wind-up of his speech, the CEO summarized the company's core strategic goals."
  2. 2

    A deliberate tease, hoax, or trick played on someone to provoke an emotional reaction.

    "Don't get upset by his comments; it was just a wind-up to see how you would react."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the phrasal verb 'wind up', tracing back to Middle English 'winden' (to twist or turn) combined with the directional particle 'up'. Historically associated with tightening the spring of a mechanical device to store energy, the term evolved in the 20th century to encompass the final phase of an event, a conclusion, or the act of teasing someone.

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