wristbanding

English

Etymology

wristband +‎ -ing

Noun

wristbanding (uncountable)

1. Material for making shirt cuffs.
   • 1776, Jeremy Bentham, letter to Samuel Bentham:

     If any Shirts should be found to want new wristbanding or collaring let it be done with rather purer cloth than that of the shirt itself — especially wristbanding.

2. The process of putting a wristband on a person.
   • 2001, Tony Waters, Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan:

     The 70,000 number, though, was arrived at only after the refugees had been in place in refugee camps for seven to eight weeks, and was obtained by means of a large wristbanding exercise in which every single refugee had a non-removable wristband put on in one day.