Close Down

Definition: Close Down

Close Down

Verb

1. Cease to operate or cause to cease operating; "The owners decided to move and to close the factory"; "My business closes every night at 8 P.M.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Close Down

Crosswords: Close Down

I don't want to interrupt your social life with my petty concerns so why don't we just close down the business and live off the charity of strangers (Dark Angel; writing credit: Ben Aaronovitch; Mark Ezra)

No. To close up is to close down, to close down is to go out of business (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

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Books

• Five Good Reasons to Close Down the Department of Commerce [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

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I got in, and the boy shut the window close down to keep out the cold

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Business

And local officials are reluctant to close down TVIs, because they contribute to the local economy. (references)

In March Henan police detained evangelist Xu Yongze and eight of his associates in an attempt to close down his church network. (references)

However, many of these incinerators are small-scale facilities that are likely to close down in the future, with the trend moving towards large-scale incinerators serving wider ranges of customers. (references)

Civil Liberties

Belarus

The law provides that the regime may close down a publication after two warnings. (references)

Kazakhstan

Human rights activists assert that sometimes libel lawsuits are used to close down opposition media outlets or to silence opposition figures. (references)

China

Police continued their efforts to close down an underground evangelical group called the "Shouters," an offshoot of a pre-1949 indigenous Protestant group. (references)

Economic History

Guyana

As a result, they had to temporarily retrench their workers and close down their offices. (references)

Bangladesh

These hartals are enforced by political activists and essentially close down business throughout the country. (references)

Pakistan

Also, two of the private airlines, Bhoja Air and Safe Air had to close down their operations due to financial difficulties. (references)

Human Rights

Panama

Prison authorities hope eventually to close down these provincial jails and house all prisoners in the central jails. (references)

Worker Rights

Honduras

Some employers have threatened to close down unionized companies and have harassed workers seeking to unionize, in some cases dismissing them outright. (references)

Ecuador

The worker is allowed to request that an inspector from the Ministry of Labor come to the workplace and confirm the hazard; that inspector then may close down the workplace. (references)

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Albanian

ndaloj (arrest, balk, ban, bar, baulk, block, break down, cease, challenge, come to a halt, debar, detain, disallow, disqualify, enjoin, estop, forbid, halt, impede, inhibit, interdict, negative, nip, prevent, prohibit, proscribe, pull up, stall, stop, tackle, withhold), mbyll plotësisht. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ضرب عن العمل (down tools, walk out), ‏إنقطع عن الإنتاج. (various references)

Bulgarian 

закривам (abolish, adjourn, cap, case, cover, hide, intercept, liquidate, obscure, obstruct, shield, shroud, shut down, shut out), прекратявам работа (pack up). (various references)

Chinese 

關門 (closed doors). (various references)

Czech

zrušit (abolish, abrogate, annul, break off, call off, cancel, countermand, destroy, disannul, discontinue, dissolve, do away with, invalidate, nullify, overturn, quash, raise, repeal, rescind, revers, reverse, revoke, set aside, stop, strike off, sweep, take off, undo, unmake, vitiate, void, withdraw), zavřít (close, coop up, fasten, imprison, pin, shut, shut down, turn off), uzavřít (block off, cage up, conclude, encase, obturate, shut down, shut up, terminate, tie, transact), konèit vysílání. (various references)

Danish

minimale lukningstilsagn (commitment to close down a proportion of production capacity). (various references)

Dutch

toezegging inzake de minimum-capaciteitssluitingen (commitment to close down a proportion of production capacity). (various references)

Finnish

lopettaa toimintansa (cease its activities, go out of business). (various references)

French

arrêter le travail. (various references)

German

zumachen (cap, close, do up, fasten up, get a move on, move, put down, put up, seal, shut, shut down, step on it, to close), stillegen (closedown, cripple, immobilize, lay up, quiesce, shut down, to cripple), schließen (abstract, bolt, clause, close, closing, conclude, contract, derive, enter into, form, gather, induce, infer, lock, make, reason, shut, shut down, to clause, to close, to conclude (with), to shut, wind up), einstellen (abandon, adjust, aim, appoint, attune, call off, cease, collimate, discontinue, engage, focus, hire, hold, justify, lock on, place, position, put in, set, stall, stop, suspend, take on, to collimate, to engage, to justify, to tune in, tune in, twist). (various references)

Greek 

κλείνω (close, close up, cover over, shut, to close, turn off). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שבית (lock out, lockout, put an end to, stop). (various references)

Hungarian

lezár (bar, block, pin down, seal up, shut down, terminate, to clinch, to close, to conclude, to make up, to pin down, to quarantine, to seal, to secure, to shut down, to shut off, to terminate), elfojt (Burke, damp, deafen, extinguish, quench, repress, smother, suppress, to bottle, to bottle up, to check, to curb, to damp, to deaden, to drown out, to inhibit, to mask, to put down, to quash, to quell, to repress, to silence, to smother, to stifle, to strangle, to strangulate, to subdue, to suppress, to tame, to throttle down, to wad). (various references)

Italian

impegno di riduzione minima della capacit� produttiva (commitment to close down a proportion of production capacity). (various references)

Pig Latin

oseclay ownday.(various references)

Portuguese

encerrar atividades. (various references)

Romanian

se închide (close, darken, deepen, fasten, shut, snap). (various references)

Russian 

закрывать конец, прекращать работу. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zatvoriti (cloister, close, closeout, coop, impound, incarcerate, lock into, occlude, put into, shut down, shut in, shut off), obustaviti rad (call a halt). (various references)

Spanish

clausurar (gag, lock), cerrar definitivamente, cerrar (block, bring up, close, fasten, jam, lock, lock out, make, obstruct, put down, put over, put through, seal, seal off, set in, shut, shut down, shut up, stop, to close, to shut, turn off, zip, zip shut, zip up). (various references)

Swedish

stänga (close, fasten, lock, open, open up, shut, stop), sluta sändningarna för dagen, slå igen (close, fold up, shut down, slam), lägga ned (put down, put in a lot of work), företagsnedläggelse. (various references)

Turkish

yayını kesme, son verilmek, kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), kesilmek (be cut, be interrupted, become, cease, clot, Curdle, die away, die down, drop, dry up, go down, go off, go sour, intermit, let up, set, shear, sour, stop, surcease, turn sour), kapatmak (ante up, buy up, cap, clear, close, close up, cloud, cover, enclose, furl, impound, incarcerate, inclose, intern, interrupt, liquidate, obturate, occlude, put up, seal, seal off, shut, shut down, shut off, shut to, shut up, switch off, wall), kapatma (closing, closure, incarceration, kept woman, liquidation, sealing, shutting, shutting down, turning off), kapanmak (be closed, be shut, be suspended, cicatrize, cloister, close up, fold, fold up, go into liquidation, hole, hole up, overcast, overcloud, scar over, shut, shut to), faaliyetini durdurma, faaliyetine son verme. (various references)

Ukrainian

закривати (bar, blench, break up, close, close up, fasten up, flounce, obturate, occlude, occult, shut), припиняти роботу (lay off). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: closedown.

-1 letter: condoles, consoled.

-2 letters: clowned, colones, condoes, condole, console, dewools, noodles, scowled, secondo, snooled, swooned, woolens.

-3 letters: cloned, clones, closed, clowns, codens, codons, colone, colons, condos, consol, cooled, cowled, dewool, dowels, endows, locoed, locoes, lodens, loosed, loosen, nodose, noodle, noosed, odeons, oodles, scowed, second, slowed, snowed, soloed, wooden, wooled, woolen.

-4 letters: clews, clods, clone, clons.

+1 letter: closedowns, lancewoods.

+2 letters: candlewoods.

+4 letters: counterworlds.