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shutdown
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun shutdown has 1 sense
- shutdown(n = noun.act) closedown, closing, closure - termination of operations; "they regretted the closure of the day care center" is a kind of conclusion, ending, termination
has particulars: plant closing, bank closing, layoff
Derived form verb shut down1
THESAURUS
shutdown
abandonment, blockade, breakoff, cease, ceasing, cessation, close, closing, closure, desinence, desistance, discontinuance, discontinuation, occlusion, relinquishment, renunciation, shutting, shutting up, stopping, surcease, termination
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