Formality

Definition

formality / fↄ:'mælǝti / n ၁။ [U] လုပ္႐ိုးလုပ္စဥ္။ ခမ္းႀကီးနားႀကီး။ ဟန္ႀကီးပန္ႀကီး။ different levels of formality ❍ He greeted her with cool formality. ❍ The formality of the room's furnishings was rather daunting. ၂။ [C often pl ] လုပ္႐ိုးလုပ္စဥ္ အခမ္းအနား။ He likes to keep formalities to the minimum. ❍ Let's skip the formalities and get down to business. ၃။ [C] (က) (often pl ) ႐ံုးလုပ္ငန္း၊ လုပ္ထံုး။ go through all the formalities to get a gun licence ❍ comply with the formalities. (ခ) လုပ္႐ိုးလုပ္စဥ္။ He knows he has the job so the interview is just a formality/ a mere formality.

Examples

1. We went through the usual formalities at customs and passport control.
2. [just a formality] : The interview is just a formality.
3. A degree of formality in dress is expected in this business.