Usually means: Securing position or win definitively.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word clinching:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. clinching: Merriam-Webster
  2. clinching: Collins English Dictionary
  3. clinching: Vocabulary.com
  4. Clinching, clinching: Wordnik
  5. clinching: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. clinching: Wiktionary
  7. Clinching, clinching: Dictionary.com
  8. clinching: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Clinching (metalworking), Clinching: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Clinching: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Clinching: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. clinching: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. clinching: FreeDictionary.org
  14. clinching: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clinching: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clinching: Encyclopedia

(Note: See clinch as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (clinching)

adjective:  That settles something (such as an argument) definitely and conclusively.
noun:  A clinch; a passionate embrace.
noun:  A making certain or finalizing.
noun:  (computing, historical) The distortion of computer tape by wrinkling.

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