CLOSE DOWN

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does close down mean? 

• CLOSE DOWN (verb)
  The verb CLOSE DOWN has 1 sense:

1. cease to operate or cause to cease operating

  Familiarity information: CLOSE DOWN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOSE DOWN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cease to operate or cause to cease operating

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

close; close down; close up; fold; shut down

Context example:

close up the shop

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "close down"):

adjourn; retire; withdraw (break from a meeting or gathering)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The business is going to close down

Derivation:

closedown (termination of operations)

 Context examples 

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

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was on the beach, close down by the sea, that I found them.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The dog was lying at Skiff Miller's feet, head close down on paws, ears erect and listening, and eyes that were quick and eager to follow the sound of speech as it fell from the lips of first one and then the other.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The leader, with a quick movement of his rein, threw his horse out in front, and pointing first to the sun—now close down on the hill tops—and then to the castle, said something which I did not understand.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was very near, but not yet in sight; when, in addition to the tramp, tramp, I heard a rush under the hedge, and close down by the hazel stems glided a great dog, whose black and white colour made him a distinct object against the trees.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)