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.

From BBC

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.

From Forbes

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

From The Guardian