firm

IPA: fˈɝm

(transitive) To make firm or strong; fix securely.
(transitive) To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify.
(intransitive) To become firm; stabilise.
(intransitive) To improve after decline.
(intransitive, Australia) To shorten (of betting odds).
(transitive, UK, slang) To select (a higher education institution) as one's preferred choice, so as to enrol automatically if one's grades match the conditional offer.

Examples of "firm" in Sentences

Additionally, loyalty to the firm is an antiqauted notion.
"It will probably take a little more than 3.6 billion euros" to reach the 8.6% target, which he called "firm."
But you must remember, my dear, that part of his expenses for this trip was paid for by the firm -- the _firm_.
Mr. Cummings didn't comment specifically on Daqo or Global Education; his firm is an underwriter on Global Education's deal.
The title firm found out differently when Winfield was injured in a 1962 auto accident and her husband picked up her paycheck.
Deeley also severed ties with Reach Communications, the title firm RCS Searchers and all title companies doing business with the Sheriff's Office.
For a period, the retail shops were more careful in the number of genuine French models of gowns and hats which they exhibited, and the label firm confessed that its trade had fallen off.
That is our firm belief, and therefore you will find no despondency in Bohemia, but only _firm determination not only to defend to the last the integrity of our kingdom, but also to accomplish the unity of the whole Czecho-Slovak nation.
Private detective Douglas Pollock told the Palm Beach County Circuit Court last week that Carlson had '' absconded '' with the title firm's banking records and had locked them in her West Palm Beach residence, according to court records.