0 past simple and past participle of clinch
2 to make someone decide what to do after a lot of thought or discussion:
These were, interestingly, clinched in 1967- 68, not 1964- 66.
A claim could be strengthened, but not clinched, by evidence of generosity to the church through the payment of rates.
But the identification was clinched by multiple names, a triplet and a doublet.
The suggestions are at present the subject of negotiation and the matter is not yet clinched.
That clinched the evidence as far as he was concerned, and he removed the handle of the offending pump, much to local people's annoyance.
That meant that no agreement could be clinched.
The deal must therefore be clinched immediately, and it must be a tough one with peace as its goal.
The final negotiations about the unfreezing of those assets clinched the deal and led to their release.
