shut(something)down
phrasal verbwithshutverb[IorT]uk/ʃʌt/us/ʃʌt/present participleshutting|past tense and past participleshut
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If abusinessor alargepieceofequipmentshutsdown or someoneshutsit down, itstopsoperating:
Thecompanyplanstoshutdown fourfactoriesandcut10,000jobs.
Thecrewshutdown theright-handengineof theaircraft.
to stop operating permanently
- close downWith sales down, the company closed one factory down and reduced the workforce at another.
- closeMany of the shops in the High Street have closed recently.
- shut downThe bookshop is shutting down after 25 years of business.
- shutUKSeveral of the bank's local branches are shutting.
- shut up shopUKThe seaside businesses all shut up shop during the winter.
- go/put out of businessMy favourite ice cream shop went out of business last summer.
- Bothchemicalfactorieswereshutdown forsafetyreasons.
- Three thousandpeoplewilllosetheirjobsif thefactoryshutsdown.
- They'veshutdown theoldbiscuitfactory.
- All thosesweetold-fashionedshopshaveshutdown.
- They had toshutdown one of theengines.
Machines - not functioning
- act
- blink
- break
- brokenness
- brownout
- burn out
- conk
- conk out
- cut
- cutsomethingout
- DDoS
- dead
- defective
- dysfunction
- fritz
- idle
- incapacitate
- knackered
- shudder to a haltidiom
- stall
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