close down
End business permanently
Close down means to shut permanently or cease operations entirely.
A business closes down when it stops trading for good: The factory closed down after sixty years.
Authorities may close down an establishment: Health inspectors closed the restaurant down.
The phrase emphasizes finality more than simply "close"—a shop closes at night but closes down forever.
Cessation of operations
- terminateBring to an end
- discontinueTo stop doing
- haltComplete sudden stop
- suspendHalt or hang temporarily
decommission · mothball · wind up · dismantle · deactivate · shutter · pull the plug · board up
Complete and conclude
- finalizeSettle decisively
- completeLacking nothing, fully done
- finishBring to completion
- concludeEnd or infer
end · terminate · cessation · final day · last day · curtain call · finale · sign off
Selling assets for cash
- bankruptcyLegal status when insolvent
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- receivershipCourt-ordered asset management
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
winding up · shuttering · going out of business · administration · auction · clearance sale · final sale · redundancies
shutdown
Cessation of operations
- terminateBring to an end
- discontinueTo stop doing
- haltComplete sudden stop
suspend · decommission · mothball · wind up · dismantle · deactivate · shutter · pull the plug · board up · vacate
wrap up
Complete and conclude
conclude · end · terminate · cessation · final day · last day · curtain call · finale · sign off · call it quits
liquidation
Selling assets for cash
- bankruptcyLegal status when insolvent
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- receivershipCourt-ordered asset management
dissolution · winding up · shuttering · going out of business · administration · auction · clearance sale · final sale · redundancies · layoffs
- dissolutionbreakup, breakdown, liquidation, disintegration, dismantling
- financial ruinbankrupt, bankruptcy, bust, busted, broke
- quittingquit, resign, resignation, stop, end
- shutdownpower off, turn off, switch off, shut off, deactivate
- goalkeepingsave, saves, goalkeeper, goalie, goaltender
close downopen up
Reveal inner thoughts
carry on · keep open · reopen · restart · keep going
close downstart up
Initiate or new company
launch · establish · found · set up · open for business
close downreopen
Make accessible again
open up · fire up · activate · come back to life · spring into action
close, down, closed, closing, exclusive, closer, closure, inclusive, enclosure