close down

1. 1.

   cease to operate or cause to cease operating

   “The owners decided to move and to close the factory”

   “My business closes every night at 8 P.M.”

   “close up the shop”

   Synonymsclose upclosefoldshut down

   Narroweradjourn

Questions about close down

What does close down mean?

close down means "cease to operate or cause to cease operating".

What is another word for close down?

Close synonyms include close up, close, fold, shut down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is close down a common word?

close down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.