formalities
/fɔːrˈmælɪtiz/
noun
- Official or required actions, procedures, or rules that must be followed, often in legal or official situations.
- We completed the customs formalities before boarding the plane.
- The lawyer explained the formalities needed to sign the contract.
- There are a few formalities to finish before you can get your passport.
- Things that are done only because they are the usual or expected way of doing something, even if they are not really necessary.
- For him, filling out the paperwork was an annoying formality.
- The meeting was just a formality; the decision had already been made.
- Shaking hands at the end of the negotiation was a mere formality.
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