Definition of "hard-wire" [hard-wire]

• To connect (electronic components, for example) by electrical wires or cables. (verb-transitive)
• To implement (a capability) through logic circuitry that is permanently connected within a computer and therefore not subject to change by programming. (verb-transitive)
• To determine or put into effect by physiological or neurological mechanisms; make automatic or innate: "It may be that certain orders of anxiety are hard-wired in us” ( Armand Schwerner). (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "He urges her to "hard-wire" make permanent a selection process for the next IMF chief and key staff members that is based on merit rather than nationality."
• "Of the 180 or so new coal belchers that Dick Cheney tried to hard-wire into America's future, 153 have been blocked or abandoned, Only 22 escaped and are being built."
• "Photo: AP The only long-term fix that can save the euro, in the Germans' view, is to tighten collective control over national finances to hard-wire fiscal discipline."