firm up
To make (tentative plans) more definite.
Can we firm up plans for the barbecue Sunday?
firm
UK /fɜɹm/ US /fɜɹm/
adj 5verb 5noun 3adv 1
Definitions
noun
1
A business partnership; the name under which it trades.
2
A business enterprise, however organized.
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.
3
A criminal gang, especially based around football hooliganism.
adj
1
Steadfast, secure, solid (in position)
It's good to have a firm grip when shaking hands.
2
Fixed (in opinion).
a firm believer; a firm friend; a firm adherent
firm favourites
3
Insistent upon something, not accepting dissent.
He wanted to stay overnight, but I was firm with him and said he had to leave today.
4
Durable, rigid (material state).
firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood; firm land (i.e. not soft and marshy)
Biblical criteria of sexual seductiveness include a white skin, black hair, or henna-dyed, scarlet lips, a prominent nose, rosy temples, long straight neck, firm breasts, round thighs, an erect posture.
5
Mentally resistant to hurt or stress.
[…] The life that almost dies in me: That dies not, but endures with pain, And slowly forms the firmer mind, Treasuring the look it cannot find, The words that are not heard again.
adv
1
firmly, steadily
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