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wristbanding

wristbanding noun: material for making shirt cuffs.

Noun

wristbanding (uncountable)

  1. Material for making shirt cuffs.
    • If any Shirts should be found to want new wristbanding or collaring let it be done with rather purer cloth than that of the shirt itself — especially wristbanding.1776, Jeremy Bentham, letter to Samuel Bentham
  2. The process of putting a wristband on a person.
    • The 70,000 number, though, was arrived at only after the refugees had been in place in refugee camps for seven to eight weeks, and was obtained by means of a large wristbanding exercise in which every single refugee had a non-removable wristband put on in one day.2001, Tony Waters, Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan

Origin of wristbanding

From wristband + -ing.

Questions about wristbanding

What does wristbanding mean?
Wristbanding means material for making shirt cuffs.
What part of speech is wristbanding?
Wristbanding is a noun.

Words near wristbanding in the dictionary

  1. wrist-watch
  2. wrist-winged glider
  3. wrist-winged gliders
  4. wristband
  5. wristbanded
  6. wristbanding
  7. wristbands
  8. wristbone
  9. wristbones
  10. wristcel
  11. wristcels

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