2 the opinion you have after considering all the information about something: --
[ + that ] At first I thought he was a bit shy, but I've come to the conclusion that he's simply unfriendly!
Did you come to/reach/draw any conclusions at the meeting this morning?
3 a decision made after a lot of consideration: --
4 the last part of something: --
The novel’s conclusion is disappointing.
5 a decision or judgment that is made after careful thought: --
come to the conclusion that The new boss soon came to the conclusion that the German company could turn round the ailing British subsidiary.
reach/come to/draw a conclusion Information is gathered into a profile and analytical software draws conclusions about the customer's likely interests.
The findings and conclusions of the report are simply guidelines, not rulings.
From the preceding analysis a number of conclusions can be drawn.
What conclusions can be drawn from this discussion ?
The collection is divided into five parts : legal aspects of intervention ; economic aspects ; military aspects ; decisionmaking ; and conclusions.
The final stage is producing a report on the findings and conclusions on the society studied by the researcher.
The randomness of the genetic algorithm makes it hard to draw general conclusions from these figures.
The conclusions do not hold for each and every regional language and dialect studied here.
There are, however, several major caveats to these general conclusions.
The thesis then ends with a conclusions chapter.