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Verb
to stop operating or working: the factory closed down many years ago
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Brit & NZ radio, television the end of a period of broadcasting
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Verb1.close down - 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."; "close up the shop"
close up, shut down, close, fold
adjourn, retire, withdraw - break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library"
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The big packers did not turn their hands off and close down, like the canning factories; but they began to run for shorter and shorter hours.
The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton View in context
The livelong day he sat in his loom, his ear filled with its monotony, his eyes bent close down on the slow growth of sameness in the brownish web, his muscles moving with such even repetition that their pause seemed almost as much a constraint as the holding of his breath.
Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context
And in all seriousness they have set a gun- boat to watch the vessel night and day, with orders to close down on any revolutionary movement in a twinkling
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
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