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noun as in final offer

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• final notice
• final proposal
• final terms
• final warning
• last chance
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noun as in dispute, question

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noun as in property, right demanded or reserved

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noun as in provision in document

• small print
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Classical Academies CEO Cameron Curry called teachers’ interpretation of his message as an ultimatum a “misunderstanding” and said teachers would not be fired or removed for choosing not to return to the classroom.

The answer to your brother is that you really want to love your sister-in-law as you know he does, “but her ultimatums about the ex make it a challenge.”

I hardly want to issue a "weed or me" ultimatum — and I am not even anti-weed.

Facebook executives approached Ali Partovi, the creator of a popular app that used Facebook’s data, a decade ago with a threatening ultimatum.

This ultimatum shouldn’t be forced upon often-underpaid waiters, line cooks, and dishwashers.

Obama would then give Congress an ultimatum: Act by a certain date, perhaps a hundred days into the new Congress, or he will.

And so Scheunemann offered an ultimatum: Kick Spencer out, or he would leave.

So Giles issues Ellie an ultimatum: Find Matthew Smith and write a killer story, or find yourself a new job.

This is an ultimatum seeking a target in the disorienting matrix of asymmetric warfare.

Putin said there had been no ultimatum for Ukrainian forces to surrender, as was widely reported Monday.

The manhood of Homestead rebelled: the millmen scorned the despotic ultimatum.

On receiving this ultimatum, the magistrates asked for time to communicate with the Elector and the King of England.

But, probably realising the futility of such a course, he changed his mind, and delivered an ultimatum from the top step.

After favouring me with his ultimatum, the Vicomte looked at me expectantly.

On the 9th of October, 1899, the Transvaal Government presented an ultimatum.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ultimatum, such as: warning, conditions, demand, final notice, final proposal, and final terms.

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Definition of ultimatum noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

• to issue an ultimatum
• The government denied that it had presented the union with an ultimatum.
• give somebody
• demand something

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a final, uncompromising demand or set of terms issued by a party to a dispute, the rejection of which may lead to a severance of relations or to the use of force.

a final proposal or statement of conditions.

Origin of ultimatum

Words that may be confused with ultimatum.

• ultimate , ultimatum

Words Nearby ultimatum

• ultimate constituent
• ultimate strength
• ultima Thule
• ultimogeniture

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How to use ultimatum in a sentence

Classical Academies CEO Cameron Curry called teachers’ interpretation of his message as an ultimatum a “misunderstanding” and said teachers would not be fired or removed for choosing not to return to the classroom.

The answer to your brother is that you really want to love your sister-in-law as you know he does, “but her ultimatums about the ex make it a challenge.”

I hardly want to issue a "weed or me" ultimatum — and I am not even anti-weed.

Facebook executives approached Ali Partovi, the creator of a popular app that used Facebook’s data, a decade ago with a threatening ultimatum .

This ultimatum shouldn’t be forced upon often-underpaid waiters, line cooks, and dishwashers.

Obama would then give Congress an ultimatum : Act by a certain date, perhaps a hundred days into the new Congress, or he will.

And so Scheunemann offered an ultimatum : Kick Spencer out, or he would leave.

So Giles issues Ellie an ultimatum : Find Matthew Smith and write a killer story, or find yourself a new job.

This is an ultimatum seeking a target in the disorienting matrix of asymmetric warfare.

Putin said there had been no ultimatum for Ukrainian forces to surrender, as was widely reported Monday.

The manhood of Homestead rebelled: the millmen scorned the despotic ultimatum .

On receiving this ultimatum , the magistrates asked for time to communicate with the Elector and the King of England.

But, probably realising the futility of such a course, he changed his mind, and delivered an ultimatum from the top step.

After favouring me with his ultimatum , the Vicomte looked at me expectantly.

On the 9th of October, 1899, the Transvaal Government presented an ultimatum .

British Dictionary definitions for ultimatum

/ ( ˌʌltɪˈmeɪtəm ) /

a final communication by a party, esp a government, setting forth conditions on which it insists, as during negotiations on some topic

any final or peremptory demand, offer, or proposal

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cultural definitions for ultimatum

[ (ul-tuh- may -tuhm) ]

A formal message delivered from one government to another threatening war if the receiving government fails to comply with conditions set forth in the message. For example, after the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand in 1914, the government of Austria sent an ultimatum to Serbia, which Austria held responsible for the assassination.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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noun. ['ˌəltəˈmeɪtəm'] a final peremptory demand.

• ultimatus (Latin)
• ultimus (Latin)
• mentholatum
• sense-datum

How do you pronounce ultimatum?

Pronounce ultimatum as ˌəltəˈmeɪtəm.

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A common misspelling of ultimatum is ultimatium

Sentences with ultimatum

1. Noun, singular or mass If you give him an ultimatum , he might choose his ex, instead of you.

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Israel to open more aid routes to Gaza and increase deliveries after pressure from Biden

WASHINGTON — Israel committed to opening additional aid routes to allow for increased assistance to flow into Gaza after a call with President Joe Biden warning of a potential shift in U.S. policy after a strike this week killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers .

White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said after Thursday's call that Israel had committed to opening the Ashdod port to allow assistance to be directly delivered into Gaza, opening the Erez crossing to let aid flow into north Gaza and significantly boosting deliveries from Jordan.

“As the President said today on the call, U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these and other steps, including steps to protect innocent civilians and the safety of aid workers,” Watson said in a statement Thursday night.

A spokesman for the Israeli government said in a statement to NBC News that the “increased aid will prevent a humanitarian crisis and is necessary to ensure the continuation of the fighting and to achieve the goals of the war.”

No timetable was spelled out. Watson said in her statement that the steps announced by Israel "must now be fully and rapidly implemented."

In a readout of Biden's Thursday call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the White House said that Biden “made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps.”

Summarizing his call with Netanyahu in a post to X Thursday, Biden said, “Israel must implement steps to address civilian harm and the safety of workers — and work toward a ceasefire to bring hostages home.”

According to two U.S. officials, Biden strongly implied to Netanyahu that the U.S. could condition military aid to Israel on what it does to address humanitarian concerns in Gaza and get to a ceasefire as soon as possible.

“That was the message,” one of the officials said.

After issuing his warning to Netanyahu, Biden told the prime minister that his position doesn’t negate his love for Israel, according to the two U.S. officials and a person familiar with the call.

Biden’s comments appear to be a preemptive attempt to push back on the notion that anyone who is critical of Israel’s approach to its war against Hamas isn’t a true supporter of the Jewish state.

The person familiar with the call said Biden told Netanyahu that there’s no other leader outside of Israel who takes Israel’s security more seriously than he does, and reiterated that he’s been a strong supporter of Israel for decades.

Asked to elaborate on potential policy changes the White House hinted at in the readout, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters at the daily White House press briefing that he wouldn't preview specific steps that the U.S. might take.

"What we are looking to see and hope to see here in the coming hours and days is a dramatic increase in the humanitarian assistance getting [into Gaza], additional crossings opened up and a reduction in the violence against civilians and certainly aid workers," Kirby said, adding that they want to see Israel "take practical immediate steps to protect aid workers on the ground and to demonstrate that they have that civilian harm mitigation in place."

Kirby was pressed repeatedly about whether the U.S. could withhold military aid to Israel and said he wouldn't get ahead of any decisions.

"There are too many civilians being killed," Kirby said. "The risk to aid workers is unacceptable. Now we have certain aid organizations that are reconsidering whether they’re even going to be able to continue operations in Gaza, while famine looms, so there has to be tangible steps. Let’s see what they announce, let’s see what they direct, let’s see what they do."

The two U.S. officials said Biden told Netanyahu to begin letting more trucks carrying humanitarian aid into Gaza immediately and to be less stringent about what materials are on them.

Biden also shifted his stance on a ceasefire in Gaza during his call with Netanyahu, telling the prime minister he must agree to one, and that the easiest way to achieve that is a deal that would implement a ceasefire in exchange for the release of hostages by Hamas, the two U.S. officials said. If Netanyahu does not agree to a ceasefire, the president made clear that U.S. relations with Israel would significantly change, the officials said.

The White House readout said the president told Netanyahu that “an immediate ceasefire is essential to stabilize and improve the humanitarian situation and protect innocent civilians.” Biden told Netanyahu to “empower” his negotiators to reach a deal that would include a return of the hostages being held in Gaza.

"The two leaders also discussed public Iranian threats against Israel and the Israeli people," the White House added. "President Biden made clear that the United States strongly supports Israel in the face of those threats."

This moment, after Israel’s killing of seven aid workers for World Central Kitchen, one of the U.S. officials said, “is an inflection point in this war.”

During the call, which a senior Biden administration official said lasted for about 30 minutes, Netanyahu reiterated his statement that Israel didn't deliberately kill the aid workers on Monday, Kirby said.

Netanyahu also spent Thursday meeting with a Republican congressional delegation in Jerusalem, which was organized by the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC, and discussed threats from Iran at an Israeli security cabinet meeting.

Republicans signaled opposition to the possibility of conditioning aid to Israel, with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., writing on X on Thursday night that Biden "should not undercut our ally amidst an existential threat by conditioning our support."

“The president’s ultimatums should be going to Hamas, not Israel," he added.

The call between the leaders was arranged after the strike on the aid workers occurred, a U.S. official said, describing Biden as being "very angry" about the incident.

The president's anger is "indicative of the broader problem of how the Israelis are conducting their operations,” for “either not passing on to their military the deconfliction details from World Central Kitchen, or they’re being received and ignored,” the official said.

Vice President Kamala Harris, who was traveling to North Carolina on Thursday, also listened to the call.

The seven workers killed on Monday included a dual U.S.-Canada citizen, according to chef José Andrés' World Central Kitchen. Biden called Andrés "to express that he's heartbroken" over their deaths, the White House said on Tuesday.

Israel said it didn't intend to target and kill the humanitarian aid workers, but the charity said that its team had coordinated its movements with the Israel Defense Forces and that they were traveling in a “deconflicted zone” in vehicles that included two armored cars branded with the World Central Kitchen logo.

After the attack, the nonprofit organization said it was  immediately pausing operations in the region .

Biden and Netanyahu last spoke by phone on March 18. In that call, Biden warned the Israeli leader against authorizing a military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

Top U.S. and Israeli officials held a virtual meeting Monday to discuss Israel's plans for a possible ground invasion of the city, which grew contentious after the Americans pushed back on Israel’s proposal to evacuate Palestinian civilians sheltering there, two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official familiar with the meeting said.

Israel  proposed moving 1.4 million civilians from Rafah into tents north of the city, but the plan didn't include addressing sanitation, food and water needs or sourcing for most of the tents, the officials said.

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., a close Biden ally, came out for the first time Thursday in support of putting conditions on U.S. military aid to Israel if it decides to go into Rafah without making provisions to protect civilians or provide humanitarian aid. “I think we’re at that point,” he said in an interview on CNN.

In a statement Thursday, Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said the U.S. should stop funding Israel's military operation in Gaza.

The Biden administration "has a responsibility to stop financing the Netanyahu government’s strategy, which has so disproportionately killed civilians, aid workers, and medical personnel, used food as a weapon, and that has no vision to establish a viable, independent Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel,” he said.

Meanwhile, Biden met with members of the Muslim community at the White House on Tuesday. One of the participants, Salima Suswell, the founder of the Black Muslim Leadership Council, told NBC News that the president told the group that first lady Jill Biden has been privately urging him to end the war between Israel and Hamas.

Biden made the remark after a doctor who had been treating injured people in Gaza told the president that his wife didn’t want him to join the meeting. Biden shared that he could relate and that the first lady had told him, “Stop it, stop it now,” Suswell said. The New York Times first reported the comments.

Rebecca Shabad is a politics reporter for NBC News based in Washington.

Carol E. Lee is the Washington managing editor.

Peter Alexander is chief White House correspondent for NBC News.

Monica Alba is a White House correspondent for NBC News.

Allie Raffa is an NBC News White House correspondent based in Washington, D.C.

Courtney Kube is a correspondent covering national security and the military for the NBC News Investigative Unit.

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• advance warning
• bell-ringing
• beware the ides of March idiom
• brushback pitch
• burglar alarm
• don't you dare idiom
• early warning system
• hear warning bells idiom
• one swallow doesn't make a summer idiom
• protection racket
• scare quotes
• yellow card

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The uncle of the Israeli mother who was captured on video being kidnapped by Hamas with her two red-headed toddlers is calling on President Biden to give an ultimatum to the terrorist organization to secure their immediate release and warn, “Do something, or else.”

Maurice Shnaider, 67, said he will forever be haunted by the image of his niece, Shiri Bibas, being led away from her home on Oct. 7 by Hamas terrorists while she desperately clung onto her boys, Ariel, 4, and Kfir, 1 , the youngest hostage being held in Gaza.

Now six months after their kidnapping, Shnaider, of Kingston, NY, said he’s tired of waiting and traveling from rally to rally only to hear that the hostage talks have been delayed again.

“I want Biden to tell Hamas, to tell Qatar negotiators, ‘Do something, or else,'” the frustrated uncle told The Post. “If enough pressure is put on them, then maybe we can finally see something change.”

Shnaider said he was at home when he first found out that Shiri, 32, and her husband, Yarden Bibas, 34, were victims of Hamas, with the frightened uncle turning on his TV to be greeted with the harrowing image of Shiri’s kidnapping.  

“I never want to watch that again,” he said as he teared up recalling the footage. “I can’t erase that image from my mind. I just want to remember Shiri’s smiling face.”

The Bibas family, however, received more grim news the following month, when Yarden was forced to be in a Hamas propaganda video claiming his wife and children were killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Shnaider said he could only stomach two seconds of the video before shutting it off.

“Why would I need to watch more? Two seconds is more than enough to see the pain Yarden’s face,” he said of his nephew-in-law, who he had bonded with over their love of muscle cars.

Rather than let the pain paralyze him, Shnaider and his family have joined those in the US demanding the release of the 134 hostages in Gaza, which include five Americans who are believed to still be alive.

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Shnaider recently attended back-to-back rallies in Albany and Washington DC, as well as previous meetings with UN officials.

Yet despite their best efforts, the families of the hostages feel like there’s little sense of urgency in freeing their loved ones.

“I’m sick and tired of listening to politicians, UN heads saying, ‘We understand your pain,'” Shnaider said. “No you don’t. If you did, you would be doing something about it.”

After six months of demanding action, Shnaider said the worst part was not knowing anything about the hostages and the fate of young Ariel and Kfir, the latter of whom celebrated his first birthday in captivity .

Kfir’s birthday was celebrated around the world by supporters, including Shnaider who helped light a candle on a cake for the birthday boy during a demonstration in Central Park on Jan. 18.

“Thousands came out with cake and balloons, but where’s the birthday boy? He’s learning to walk on dirt in Hamas tunnels,” Shnaider said as he sobbed.

“Ariel and Kfir have two young cousins who keep asking, ‘When are they coming back?'” he added. “What do you tell them?”

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