copper-fasten

verb

1. (tr) to make (a bargain or agreement) binding

Example Sentences

The UK have attempted to copper-fasten the idea of rapid improvement in national plans by asking all countries to attend a high-level ministerial meeting on climate change every year.

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This iconoclastic, doomsday rhetoric will only serve to copper-fasten the boundaries that have been thrown up between ‘misogynerds’ and ‘social justice warriors,’ two utterly fatuous labels.

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There has been no serious effort to reform this, but many efforts instead to copper-fasten it.

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