closedown

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"I repeat, both the collection boxes and this machine closedown I was — I was made aware when everybody else was made aware," Mr DeJoy said.

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2020

After this year, following the Tevatron's permanent closedown in the autumn, it will be the world's lone super-collider.

From Reuters • Apr. 22, 2011

Either the researcher didn't know this, or was too superstitious to plant the seed of thought that Daybreak may follow a similar trajectory and soon become a closedown show called Nightcap.

From The Guardian • Apr. 12, 2011

When they bade the viewers goodnight at closedown, it was, the critic Peter Black fancied, as if they were tucking them up for the night.

From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2010

After a bitter meeting of the university senate, Columbia joined 100 other colleges in a one-day closedown last week.

From Time Magazine Archive