Usually means: Fixing initial information as reference.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word anchoring:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. anchoring: Merriam-Webster
  2. anchoring: Collins English Dictionary
  3. anchoring: Vocabulary.com
  4. Anchoring, anchoring: Wordnik
  5. anchoring: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. anchoring: Wiktionary
  7. anchoring: Dictionary.com
  8. anchoring: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Anchoring: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Anchoring: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Anchoring: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. anchoring: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. anchoring: FreeDictionary.org
  14. anchoring: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Anchoring: Investopedia
  2. anchoring: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anchoring: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. anchoring: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Anchoring: Visionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Visionary, for the Study of Vision (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See anchor as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (anchoring)

noun:  The act or means by which something is anchored or made firm.
noun:  (psychology) The tendency of people to place subsequently refined answers to a given question close to the initially estimated answer, giving undue weight to the initial answer, such as adjusting an initial estimate of 20% to 30% when 90% would be more appropriate.

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