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Princeton's WordNet

  1. close up, close, fold, shut down, close downverb

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. shut downverb

    To close, terminate, or end

  2. shut downverb

    To turn off or stop.

Wikipedia

  1. Shut Down

    Shut Down is a song written by Brian Wilson and Roger Christian for the American rock band The Beach Boys. The primary melody is a twelve-bar blues. It was released on their 1963 album Surfin' U. S. A. and was also released on their 1963 album Little Deuce Coupe. It was also released as the B-side of the "Surfin' U. S. A." single. The single peaked at number 23 in the US on the 'Billboard' Hot 100 chart (number seven on the United Press International chart published in newspapers), and number 34 in the UK

ChatGPT

  1. shut down

    Shut down generally refers to the cessation or suspension of an operation, activity or system. This could mean turning off machinery or electronic devices, closing a business, ending a service or program, or stopping work or other activities. It involves the discontinuation or halt of functions or operations, either temporarily or permanently.

Wikidata

  1. Shut Down

    "Shut Down" is the first single released by Australian rock band Australian Crawl from their third studio album Sons of Beaches. The song was written by drummer Bill McDonough and features lead vocals by James Reyne. The B-side was the non-album track "Creating Monsters". "Shut Down" was released in June, 1982 and reached #17 on the Australian Singles Chart in 1982.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of shut down in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of shut down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of shut down in a Sentence

  1. Avnish Awasthi:

    Yesterday, internet connectivity in 73 districts was shut down, for the rest of the districts in the states, district officials are making individual decisions.

  2. Mahesh Sharma:

    They (SpiceJet) have given their problem to us and they have said that in case they have to shut down their operation then the sufferer will be the passenger, they have requested certain relaxations and we will discuss it with our officers, we will discuss it with the senior minister and of course the government also about what best can be done.

  3. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu:

    We did not unbundle NNPC, what we simply did was a reorganisation. NNPC has not been unbundled in the sense of breaking up NNPC into different institutions, we are going to have a meeting with them right now. I don't want the industry shut down - I am going now to resolve the issues very soon.

  4. Donald Trump:

    It is now clear that Clinton Foundation is the most corrupt enterprise in political history. What they were doing during Crooked Hillary’s time as Secretary of State was wrong then, and Crooked Hillary time is wrong now. Crooked Hillary time must be shut down immediately, crooked Hillary time’s pay-for-play. If Donald Trump look at Crooked Hillary time, Crooked Hillary time’s pay-for-play.

  5. Larry Sandretsky:

    In the past, I was having such a hard time. They wouldn’t pay us and they wouldn’t pay us, so once they shut down for a while, when they came back on board, I requested that we’re paid up front.


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