closing

Definition

  • noun: a situation or occurrence in which a business or organization shuts down and stops its operations
  • noun: a concluding part (as of a speech)
  • synonyms: terminal, shutting, conclusion

Examples

  • “Thank you all for your help, and for making the fair such a big success,” she said 'in closing'.

  • We're 'closing out' our entire stock of children's clothing! Come and pick up some bargains!

  • Researchers are 'closing in on' [=they are close to finding] a cure for the disease.

Movie quotes

  • (..) Who knows what you've spoken to the darkness... ...in the bitter watches of the night... ...when all your life seems to shrink. The walls of your bower closing in about you. A hutch to trammel some wild thing in. So fair. So cold. Like a morning of pale spring... (..)
    2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers