Synonyms for hard-and-fast
hard-and-fast

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1. hard-and-fastadjective

   Synonyms:
   strict

2. hard-and-fastadjective

   Strictly maintained (as of rules)

   to stick to hard-and-fast rules

   Synonyms:
   strict

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1. hard-and-fast, strictadjective

   (of rules) stringently enforced

   "hard-and-fast rules"

   Synonyms:
   rigid, rigorous, nonindulgent, stern, exacting, strict

   Antonyms:
   variable

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1. Doug Biesecker:

   It's a very complicated issue, does the sun have a role in our variable climate? Yes. Is the dominate role? No. Even the concept of the sun being responsible for Europe's mini ice age -- it's not hard and fast true.

2. Craig Futterman:

   They still refuse to stop telling ... officers that it’s OK to Taser people who pose no immediate threat to anyone, you need hard and fast rules on this.

3. Justin Lessler:

   There is no hard and fast rule, but the evidence suggests getting a test before the third day after exposure is not of much use.

4. Tenisha Tate-Austin Patrick Semansky/AP/FILE White:

   I think it’s systemic, implicit, explicit and structural, you have all these inflection points where making different decisions can lead to a very different result. The methodology is not so hard and fast that every appraiser is going to come up with the same value.

5. Tenisha Tate-Austin Patrick Semansky/AP/FILE White:

   You have all these inflection points where making different decisions can lead to a very different result. The methodology is not so hard and fast that every appraiser is going to come up with the same value.