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n [S] UK (US home stretch)

Definition

•

the last part of something which is being done

It's taken three months so far, but we're on the home straight now.

•

the last part of a race

(Definition of home straight noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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