final solution

Noun

1. 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...
2. Any similar attempted or successful genocide.
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. - 1911, Gilbert N. Lewis, Arthur Edgar, “The Equilibrium between nitric...
   • Thus to argue that there is no final solution to this problem would be a disguised form of pretentious finality, [...] - 1975, Bernard D. den Ouden, Language and Creativity: an interdisciplinary essay in Chomskyan...