Definition of "final stage" []

• The concluding parts of an event or occurrence (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The final stage of the race was an 89.2-mile ride from Arpajon to Paris."
• "Research on the diffusion of innovations followed these rise-and-fall stages rather closely (Crane, 1972), although the final stage of demise does not seem to have begun (except perhaps in certain research traditions, like rural sociology)."
• "The topmost shelf of every closet was made to yield up its secret, cellar and coal-bin were probed to their darkest depths and, as a final stage in the lustral rites, the entire house was swathed in penitential white and deluged with expiatory soapsuds."