0 past simple and past participle of clinch --
2 to make someone decide what to do after a lot of thought or discussion: --
Those are the ten sites where negotiations have already been clinched and where railway surplus land has been made available for housing and other municipal purposes.
However, by his intervention he clinched the case, because he has made serious reflections on individuals.
This was clinched when he called in a most eminent civil servant, a master of centralisation, to help design the machinery.
But with our clinched fist it is very strong, hard to break open.
I do not believe that there is a prospect of it going elsewhere, but still negotiations continue and the deal has yet to be clinched.
It makes it extremely difficult, even for an honest and straightforward salesman, to clinch a deal that might otherwise have been clinched comparatively easily.
I am told that in many cases it was the offer of a house that clinched the deal.
The final negotiations about the unfreezing of those assets clinched the deal and led to their release.
