eventual

adjective
🔊/ɪˈventʃuəl/
🔊/ɪˈventʃuəl/
[only before noun]
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  1. happening at the end of a period of time or of a process最后的;最终的;结果的
    • the eventual winner of the tournament锦标赛的最终胜利者
    • It is impossible to predict what the eventual outcome will be.无法预测最终结果会怎么样。🔊🔊
    • The village school may face eventual closure.这所乡村学校可能面临最后被关闭。🔊🔊
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    Oxford Collocations DictionaryEventual is used with these nouns:
    • aim
    • closure
    • demise
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    Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘relating to an event or events’): from Latin eventus (from evenire ‘result, happen’, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + venire ‘come’), on the pattern of actual.