clinch

Related to clinch: clinch knot

clinch the deal

In business, to secure agreement on an offer, proposal, or some other exchange. After two weeks of negotiations, we were finally able to clinch the deal with the other firm.
See also: clinch, deal
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

clinch

(klɪntʃ)
tv. to settle something; to make something final. I was able to clinch the deal, and I got a raise for it.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • clinch the deal
  • tuck up
  • ability
  • backer
  • nippers
  • nestle down
  • nestle down (in something)
  • no salesman will call
  • question mark over
  • a question mark hangs over somebody/something
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Clinch shall now be a publicly traded company and shall provide a mechanism for Pemberton shareholders to realise the full market value of Pemberton's Panny oil and gas project.
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But despite him being named and shamed by a court, Clinch has clocked up 60 offences on his record including criminal damage, harassment and assault.
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The Russian player started losing ground as Nishikori clinch the set 6-4.
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Clinch, 49, of Millbrook Grove, Kilbarrack, Dublin, put the gun to the cheek of Mr Cieslik.
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The Fifer who, with his team-mate, triple champ Matt Neal, has already clinched the Manufacturers' Championship for Honda, said: "At the midpoint of the season at Knockhill I said it was vital to go to Brands Hatch with a chance of winning the title.
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Boasson Hagen, who won back in 2009, took the yellow jersey on stage five to Hartside and held on to clinch the win ahead of Team Sky's Woet Poels.
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Mr Clinch left St Richard Gwyn to join St Illtyd's RC High School, in Cardiff, on a permanent basis earlier this month.
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Paris, February2 (BNA) French President Francois Hollande will tomorrow (February 3) received the victorious French handball team, which clinch the World Championship for the fifth time in Doha yesterday.
French president to receive World Handball Champions
Jon Clinch (author); THE THIEF OF AUSCHWITZ; unmediated ink (Fiction: General) 16.00 ISBN: 9781479236664
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Sandra Clinch looked to the floor as the jury returned their verdict, dismissing her suggestion that American car enthusiast Alan Clinch's death was "a tragic accident".
Wife jailed for killing husband with scissors; HER NINE-YEAR JAIL SENTENCE TOO SHORT SAYS HIS BROTHER
The jury dismissed Sandra Clinch's suggestion that American car enthusiast Alan Clinch's death was "a tragic accident".
STAB WIFE JAILED FOR NINE YEARS