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What does hammer out mean?

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  1. (transitive) To come to (a difficult agreement or settlement) after much arguing and conflict.
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If it is to allow diverse citizens to hammer out a common way of life, this state cannot rest upon traditional bases of loyalty such as kinship or creed.
Ideally, the parties would sit down together again to try to hammer out an agreement as soon as possible.
White said the optics won't be good for CSC employees who were irked their chief was globe trotting while guards struggled to hammer out a new contract.
The institutions hitherto responsible for debt crisis management should be called on to hammer out the necessary reforms.
It was quite an accomplishment to bring everyone to the table and hammer out a consensus.
Heads of state hammer out Greece rescue mechanism but do not give a precise figure.

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