I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a binding agreement (= an official agreement that must be obeyed )
▪
Lawyers are in the process of drafting a legally binding agreement between both parties
a binding obligation (= something that you must legally do, especially because of an agreement )
▪
These clauses are legally binding obligations on both parties.
binding arbitration
▪
Both sides in the dispute have agreed to binding arbitration .
legally binding
▪
a legally binding agreement
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
legally
▪
It is set out in a legally binding protocol which forms an integral part of the treaty.
▪
And remember, any document you sign abroad is as legally binding for you as if you signed it at home.
▪
This calls for the adoption of much stricter and legally binding standards.
▪
As far as Mr Vlnas and the National Gallery are concerned the contract remains legally binding .
▪
But there is already a head of steam in parliament to make the proposed voluntary takeover code legally binding .
▪
There are many dangers in trying to make such a document legally binding on those would have to take care of us.
▪
In that way, you're tying the supplier to a legally binding contract.
▪
But the new measures are not legally binding .
■ NOUN
agreement
▪
An offer is something which is clearly intended if accepted to form a binding agreement .
▪
They also want financial aid and technology transfer to be included in binding agreements .
▪
If they can come to a binding agreement , the prisoners will both profess their innocence and be sentenced to two years.
▪
When a director dies, without a legally binding agreement his or her shares will not automatically to the surviving directors.
▪
A legally binding agreement to implement this 14-page political declaration was scheduled to be drawn up in the first half of 1992.
▪
The electricians appeared to accept the kind of binding agreements which he had vainly sought from the print unions.
arbitration
▪
But they are resisting pressure to refer the disputed 6.5 percent pay rise to independent binding arbitration .
contract
▪
It was held there that the parties had made a binding contract , albeit with the price still outstanding.
▪
However, in many cases the parties may create a binding contract by agreement on the three matters already identified.
▪
Explain whether this is a legally binding contract and whether or not Wilson Decorators must supply materials and receive £800. 4.
▪
The successful bidder is under a binding contract to purchase the relevant property.
▪
In that way, you're tying the supplier to a legally binding contract .
▪
In general there was the invocation of one or more deities to bear witness that a binding contract was being undertaken.
force
▪
Other mistakes do not affect the binding force of the directives.
▪
They are the justification for its binding force .
▪
These, unlike regulations, do not necessarily have immediate binding force .
▪
They should not be given legal binding force .
promise
▪
It is a half-way house, an intermediate commitment with no binding promises for the future and a built-in escape route.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
An offer is something which is clearly intended if accepted to form a binding agreement.
▪
It is impossible to exaggerate the revolutionary significance of the recognition of a binding judicial tribunal external to the realm.
▪
The fit between CypA and the binding edge of CsA is excellent and centres round the protruding side chain of MeVal-11.
▪
With him she was free of any binding love or duty.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
If you know how to use a large screwdriver you can swap over the bindings yourself.
▪
In moments of passion trussed-up participants have been known to remove their adhesive bindings.
▪
In other words oxygen binding is reversible.
▪
Matched brass florets mark the corners of the three leather volumes that contain them, and delicate brass chains fasten their bindings.
▪
Once a boarder falls with his head under the snow, it becomes difficult to disengage the bindings, the article said.
▪
Seven centuries of manuscripts, fine bindings and beautifully illustrated books, will be on display.
▪
The fore-edge painting could, of course, be combined with a vellum or Etruscan calf binding .
▪
Two of the volumes were completely empty, their photographs removed in haste, mounts and torn corners clustered in the bindings.