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Example sentences from the Web for winding-upIt would only be the winding-up—the honourable, honest winding-up of an affair which has worried me for years. Wives and Daughters|Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell It is too late to commence proceedings after a winding-up has begun. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7|Various "It's as straight as if 'twas a winding-up forever," answered Tom. The effect is so to blunt the interest of the story, that we can hardly plod on to the winding-up. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851|Various
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nounthe process of finishing or closing something, esp the process of closing down a business Words nearby winding-upwinding drum, winding frame, winding number, winding sheet, winding staircase, winding-up, wind instrument, wind instruments, Wind in the Willows, windjammer, windlass Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to winding-upaccomplishment, ending, finale, defeat, acquirement, cease, wrap, close, culmination, annihilation, death, end, ruin, curtain, curtains, stop, attainment, achievement, terminus, last |