Definition of Binding

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Binding

of Bind

That binds; obligatory.

The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.

Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.

The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.

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Binding Quotations

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
Otto von Bismarck

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
Irving Babbitt

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
Milan Kundera

Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.
David Duchovny

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.
Christopher Dawson

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.
John Charles Polanyi

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
Paul Getty

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.
Hjalmar Branting

In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.
Fredric Jameson

Binding Translations

binding in Afrikaans is band
binding in Dutch is strip, reep, band, strook, windsel
binding in Finnish is nauha
binding in French is bandeau
binding in German is verbindlich, bindend, bindend
binding in Italian is legatura
binding in Portuguese is ligar
binding in Swedish is bindning

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