close (something) down
phrasal verb with close verb uk
/kləʊz/ us
/kloʊz/
- 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.
- shutUK Several of the bank's local branches are shutting.
- shut up shopUK The seaside businesses all shut up shop during the winter.
- go/put out of businessMy favourite ice cream shop went out of business last summer.
- The local factory closed down in June.
- If the school closed down, the children would face a long bus journey every day.
- Pensioners are devastated to hear that the Post Office is closing down.
- The government closed down all opposition newspapers.
- administration
- axe
- bankrupt
- bankruptcy
- bankruptcy filer
- belly
- charter
- dying
- float
- game-changing
- go belly up idiom
- go dark idiom
- go into administration
- go to the wall idiom
- receiver
- shakeout
- shut
- shut (something) down phrasal verb
- shut up shop idiom
- sinking ship idiom