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binding

[bahyn-ding] / ˈbaɪn dɪŋ /


NOUN
cover; something which fastens
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Voters in the Northern California city of Vallejo passed a ballot measure adopting binding arbitration with its public employee unions more than 50 years ago, following a bitter police strike.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

County Fire Department employees, agrees that the very threat of winding up in binding arbitration would encourage negotiating teams to cut a deal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

The co-founders have each pledged to give 80 percent of their shares to charity, though the filing notes these pledges are not legally binding.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

She said the decision was "compatible" with legally binding climate commitments, adding: "We remain resolute in ending new licences for oil and gas and achieving net zero by 2050."

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The leather binding of Eddie’s journal lay open and empty on the ground.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

"You can think of it as a basket that allows us to capture metals and position them in ways to encourage specific types of bindings."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

On view are examples of bulbous book bindings, acid-etched vases, satin capes, parchment-covered cabinets, angular decanters, diamond-decorated cloche hats, geometric malachite brooches, stark bas-reliefs, Brancusi-faced collar ads, and boxy, black-lacquer screens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

Victorian-era publishers used arsenic to colour book bindings, in pigments such as Paris Green, Emerald Green and Scheele's Green, named after a German-born chemist.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2024

They tend to be these lock-and-key receptors, and if we create a different key, we might be able to alter the bindings.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 1, 2023

He made to stand, to move farther into the shadows, but when he noticed the bindings and the king sitting across from him, he was enraged.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny


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