iron out
Britishverb
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to smooth, using a heated iron
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to put right or settle (a problem or difficulty) as a result of negotiations or discussions
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informal to knock unconscious
Example Sentences
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To do so, he’ll have to iron out disagreements over Canada’s Sikh population, which India accuses of stoking separatist sentiment on its soil.
Mistral AI clinched its first acquisition with the purchase of infrastructure startup Koyeb as the French artificial-intelligence major looks to iron out its processes and bolster computing capabilities.
While Omnicom and IPG were ironing out their merger in lawyers’ offices across Manhattan, smaller agencies outside the city were making their own expansions.
But she admits the new law still needs "ironing out".
From BBC
“We’re going to be feeling our way a little bit, but we didn’t want to delay the implementation until we had everything ironed out,” Wolfe said.
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