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wristbanding en · NOUN

Etymology

From wristband + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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. (uncountable) 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: