Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a set of procedures required to make a transaction official.
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- noun Plural form of
formality .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a requirement of etiquette or custom
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Examples
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Kahle (certain formalities) and Golan (URAA restoration) (where a new ruling was just issued).
Archive 2009-04-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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But times have changed and the simplification of business formalities is now under way.
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But times have changed and the simplification of business formalities is now under way.
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While awaiting the settlement of certain formalities he took apartments at Brown's Hotel, and it was here he was arrested.
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The attorneys also presented Larson with patent assignments that they described as formalities and part of the necessary application paperwork.
IPBiz 2009
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And you didn't have a serious point about my observance of Constitutional formalities, which is why I didn't deem it worthy of response.
"What else are we supposed to do?" Ann Althouse 2007
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Some of the most sweeping changes under the 1976 Copyright Act involve copyright formalities, that is, the procedural requirements for securing and maintaining full copyright protection.
Supplementary Copyright Statutes, US Copy. Office Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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I've just never understood how all of the formalities are accomplished through the chaos of the crossings.
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I've just never understood how all of the formalities are accomplished through the chaos of the crossings.
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I've just never understood how all of the formalities are accomplished through the chaos of the crossings.
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