VERB
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cease to operate or cause to cease operating
My business closes every night at 8 P.M.
The owners decided to move and to close the factory
close up the shop
How To Use close down In A Sentence
- We're going to hammer out the details of how we can pension off Desmond, evict that shady adventurer Hall and close down St Paul's. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
- Then came the bombshell: the factory was to close down.
- On the outbreak of hostilities, diplomatic missions in enemy countries close down and the diplomats depart.
- A combination of internal and external factors caused the company to close down.
- This is a man, remember, who in his column last weekend urged the Archbishop of Canterbury to close down the Church of England with the words: I tell you this, beardie. Archive 2008-01-01
- Local trading standards officials can close down rogue traders selling imitation goods. Times, Sunday Times
- If they all close down because of competition from big hypermarkets five miles outside town, and you haven't got a car, what do you do?
- The women may close down the village boozer, but they will not shut down the business altogether.
- Carlene Godwin Finney to clabber gangrene close down her place her precious private pleasing place to fill the house to the rafters up past the dimpled tin roof with a rotting smell that stayed for nine days that mortgaged a room on our memories and did not die along with her “The Afterbirth, 1931″–the Poem : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
- We will close down loopholes in agency worker laws that allow firms to undercut directly employed staff. Times, Sunday Times