"fight to the finish" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fights to the finish",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "fights to the finish"
      },
      "expansion": "fight to the finish (plural fights to the finish)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "[1996 March 15, Leyla Linton, “London students sing their defiance”, in The Times, number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 14, column 2",
          "text": "Pei Ling Wu, 30, said: \"I am worried about my family, but they do not want to leave Taiwan. They want to defend their country and fight to the end. If China continues to push us, independence is the only solution.\"]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A competition in which both parties continue until one side is unequivocally defeated."
      ],
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fight to the death"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fight to the finish"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fights to the finish",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fights to the finish"
      },
      "expansion": "fight to the finish (plural fights to the finish)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "[1996 March 15, Leyla Linton, “London students sing their defiance”, in The Times, number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 14, column 2",
          "text": "Pei Ling Wu, 30, said: \"I am worried about my family, but they do not want to leave Taiwan. They want to defend their country and fight to the end. If China continues to push us, independence is the only solution.\"]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A competition in which both parties continue until one side is unequivocally defeated."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fight to the death"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fight to the finish"
}