Verb (used with object), : to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract.    From Dictionary.com. 

No agenda for this meeting was ever formalised, which is hardly surprising, but its purpose was twofold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarossa]

By early 2010, Rockwood "formalised" a list of about 15 specific targets, which may have included US soldiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age News Headlines] Reference

The forum was formalised at a meeting in Brazil last month.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The first pact formalised the establishment of a British Peace.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

They've even formalised it and given it a name: taqqya and kitman.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

This was subsequently formalised by Protocol I of 1977 to the Geneva.    From Wordnik.com.  [African National Congress Statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission] Reference

As early as February 1995, our government formalised its relations with the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE] Reference

A formalised golden leopard snarled on a background of shimmering cerulean blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

Final chargesfe0swei being formalised and all cases were sub judice, he told Sapa.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Come organically from the women´s struggles but without big formalised structures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women Marching into the African Century] Reference

These measures will be formalised in an agreement between the Minister and the MEC.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

National AIDS Control Organisation, said the deal should be formalised by April 2004.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Africa, on the need for a more formalised working relationship between the two bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

He would issue a full statement once President Thabo Mbeki formalised his appointment.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The committee accepted his withdrawal and asked for it to be to formalised in writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

But, in recent times, this relationship has been formalised, made more explicit and prescriptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Brown: The Backlash against Cultural Diplomacy] Reference

As a matter of urgency the relationship between DIP and the Election Commission must be formalised.    From Wordnik.com.  [EVALUATION OF THE MEDIA LIAISON UNIT AND PROPOSALS FOR THE WAY FORWARD] Reference

Both public agencies and the public are able to feed in their comments and criticism in a formalised way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laying the foundations: Electronic participation in spatial planning] Reference

Monday, he announced plans to turn the Postbank into a formalised business entity over the next five years.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Alas such traditions were stamped out once imperialist subjugation was formalised with the Act of Union in 1707.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

Gulags in history tend to metastasise, becoming ever larger and more secretive, ever more deadly and formalised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naomi Wolf: Ten Steps To Close Down an Open Society] Reference

This approach was formalised in the "Agreement on municipal service arrears" signed at Boksburg fire station on 26.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

At the end of 1993, these improving relations were formalised with the opening of the SA and Egyptian Representative.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The partnership at national level of government, organised business and labour, formalised in the National Economic.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

At the province's recent ANC constitutional workshop, it had formalised its position on outstanding constitutional issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contents] Reference

Wednesday initialled by officials from the respective countries, and would soon be formalised by the governments concerned.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Council (WCPTC) on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding which will see the industry being formalised and regulated.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

A R16-million injection to help get Africa's revival plan off the ground was formalised in an agreement signed in Midrand on.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Some of the lessons forced on young children by the state are nothing more than formalised and institutionalised paedophilia.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The national partnership of government, organised business and labour - formalised in the National, Economic, Development and.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

In January 2000 the partnership was formalised in SANAC, the South African National Aids Council under the leadership of Deputy.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

Obama should be making it clear that on certain matters he will be reaching out, perhaps even in formalised, institutional ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference

Through a formalised new media campaign role she is building a bridge between MPs in parliament and the membership via new media.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.K.: Labour's New Media Strategy] Reference

Bilateral commissions have been established between the three governments and on Friday Swaziland and Mozambique also formalised.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

No other co-operation agreements had been formalised at this stage, but talks were happening with other political organisations.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The commitments are in the process of being formalised and the first tranche of the fund could be in place in less than two months.    From Wordnik.com.  [India News Digest: Lockheed Martin India Head Takes Off in a Hurry] Reference

A draft plan had been produced and would be followed by a formalised plan setting out the financial requirements for reconstructing Umtata.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference