shut (sth) down
— phrasal verb with shut uk/ʃʌt/us/ʃʌt/verb [ I or T ] present participle shutting, past tense and past participle shut
B1 If a business or a large piece of equipment shuts down or someone shuts it down, it stops operating:
The company plans to shut down four factories and cut 10,000 jobs.
The crew shut down the right-hand engine of the aircraft.
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- Both chemical factories were shut down for safety reasons.
- Three thousand people will lose their jobs if the factory shuts down.
- They've shut down the old biscuit factory.
- All those sweet old-fashioned shops have shut down.
- They had to shut down one of the engines.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Machines - not functioning
- burn
- cut
- deactivate
- dead
- defunct
- fritz
- ghost
- give up the ghost idiom
- go down
- haywire
- on the blink idiom
- out of commission idiom
- outage
- seize
- shudder
- shut
- shut (sth) off
- stop
- whack
- wrong
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