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put up the shuttersBritish (Of a business) cease trading for the day or permanently: the village Post Office put up the shutters for the last time...- Others, however, are putting up the shutters - ten per cent of private-sector final salary schemes closed to new members in the past 12 months.
- We have to adapt to these economic developments, not by putting up the shutters, but by managing, controlling and selecting.
- Siddique even found the time to wink for the Telegraph & Argus during a clinch as Nesbitt put up the shutters once again.
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