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final authority (bookworm) | |||
ultimate authority | |||
final recourse; highest instance; highest recourse | |||
final instance; last instance | |||
last resort | |||
final arbiter (ИВГ) | |||
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the buck stops here (Афоризм в знач. "другие могут перекладывать ответственность на меня, но мне передавать её больше некому" [‘other people can pass the buck to me, but I can't pass the buck to anyone else']. У президента Гарри Трумэна на столе была табличка с девизом ‘The buck stops here' ГАС) | |||
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ultimate (Beloshapkina) |
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American usage, not spelling | 1 |
Banking | 2 |
Cinematography | 1 |
Economy | 5 |
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development | 4 |
Figurative | 2 |
Finances | 3 |
General | 8 |
Idiomatic | 3 |
Informal | 1 |
Insurance | 1 |
Ironical | 1 |
Law | 10 |
Military | 1 |
Notarial practice | 2 |
Rhetoric | 1 |