"finalization" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the process of concluding or completing something. For example, "The finalization of the construction project took three months."
Dr. Andrea Myerhoff, director of bioterrorism programs at the drug agency, said the rule was "in the process of finalization" and should be final in a few months.
While the deal to prevent Iran from building a nuclear arsenal is not final, and the path to finalization on 30 June runs through the objections of hardliners in Washington, Tehran and Jerusalem, Kerry this week laid the ground for Barack Obama's foreign-policy legacy – and, though confidantes say he is past focusing on it, long-delayed vindication.
In January, with the finalization of a renewed JKNC-Congress coalition, his son, Omar, became chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
J. Crew's investment meetings, known as "finalization," for the 2010 holiday line took place over two days in May.
Larsen's office had provided an advance copy of "Don't," accompanied by a letter noting that the book was "still in finalization mode with the editors".
The way he orchestrated the finalization meeting reminded me a little of Phil Donahue.
Men's finalization came the day after women's, in an adjacent showroom.
At finalization, the company's merchants present to Drexler samples of the goods they've decided to order from the company's designers — what colors and sizes and in what numbers — and what they intend to charge for them.
The goods on display here, at finalization, gave me the rare sensation of wanting to buy stuff, even if the voice in my head was often at odds with that of the guy running the meeting.
In fact, firing Mr. Chu over Solyndra would be difficult for the administration since the finalization of the loan was announced by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in September 2009, and eight months later, Mr. Obama visited the company to praise American manufacturing.
The League of Women Voters of New York State supports delay in issuance of hydraulic fracturing regulations until finalization of the Supplemental Environmental Statement ("Too Fast on Drilling," editorial, Sept. 12).
