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close down

verb as in shut down

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“I think we’re going to see, especially smaller grocery stores, or grocery stores that are in areas with a concentrated level of poverty, we will see places closing down,” says McCarthy.

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Several airports across Europe have closed down in recent weeks because of unidentified drones.

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He said the factory "effectively closed down" about three weeks ago, days after JLR was attacked by cybercriminals on 31 August.

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Others elsewhere in the world closed down major publications and even turned a blind eye to the killing of journalists.

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The News of the World was closed down in 2011, after it emerged journalists at the paper had hacked phones of public figures in an effort to obtain exclusive stories.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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