Formalities in a sentence as a noun

We're going through the Visa formalities for another hire so are getting to know the process as well.

Yes, the formalities are wonderfully powerful and fun, at least to my taste.

Those are incidentals and formalities "after the fact.

He recommends not worrying about having Terms and Conditions on your website, and all kinds of other "formalities".

Once 3 senior engineers say yes to a candidate, the manager just has to complete the formalities.

I found the Stanford book to be much more detailed in terms of the mathematical formalities behind the models/concepts and ended up preferring it.

Often the very young, the untraveled, the naïve, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty," "meaningless," or "dishonest," and scorn to use them.

Students learn that math is about manipulating formulas and equations, or about excessive formalities.

[3] Side note: I find the complaint that the pitches are "informal" a little weird, since I think one of the things that makes startups so dangerous is exactly that they are allowed to skip the formalities and cut to the chase.

Differential geometry wasn't that rigorous until the twenties or so. Complex analysis was developed using many, many unnecessary assumptions because the formalities weren't there.

Forget "formalities" like it taking 63 days to start a business or an effective tax rate of 65% that takes 732 hours per year to calculate [2], and worry about "informalities" like the government officials openly soliciting bribes to get electricity turned on to your office.

The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.

In that case, the debt vanishes and the noteholder becomes an equity holder and everybody wins in terms of optimal positioning of their respective stakes in the venture: founders have gotten their cheap stock that they can hold until a liquidity event, at which time they can sell typically for long-term capital gains and with no intervening taxes to pay; noteholders have gotten their equity stakes with all protections and with no-less-favorable pricing than that offered to the preferred stock investors who presumably have negotiated a good, arms-length deal for themselves; the company avoids a too-early high repricing of its stock so it can continue to offer good incentives to new team members as they join; and the company does not usually have to fool with 409A valuations or with other strings and formalities attending the bringing in of investors via equity rounds.

Formalities definitions

noun

a requirement of etiquette or custom; "a mere formality"

See also: formality