winding up
Approaching the end
Winding up is concluding or bringing something to an end: We're winding up the project next week.
It also means arriving at a place or situation, often unexpectedly: How did we wind up here?
She wound up becoming a lawyer.
In British usage, to wind someone up is to tease or provoke them: He's just winding you up.
- winding roadCurved path with bends
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
- turnRotational movement
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
- receivershipCourt-ordered asset management
termination · conclusion · final chapter · closure · annoying · agitating · riling · completion · irritating · goading · pushing buttons · getting under skin · coil · spring mechanism · provoking · insolvency · going out of business · company closure
- financial ruinbankrupt, bankruptcy, bust, busted, broke
- teasingtease, teasing, rib, ribbing, josh
- business failurebankruptcy court, insolvency, liquidation, closure, shutdown
- dissolutionbreakup, breakdown, liquidation, disintegration, dismantling
- liquidationsliquidation, fire sale, closeout, forced sale, bankruptcy sale
- finishingcompleting, finalizing, finishing, done, concluded
winding upstarting up
Beginning operation or activity
beginning · kicking off · commencing · initiating · launching
winding upstarting up
Beginning operation or activity
incorporating · establishing · founding · setting up · launching
winding upwinding down
Gradually decreasing toward conclusion
unwinding · releasing · running down · letting go · slackening
wind, windy, unwind, winds, winded, wind up, updating, unwinding, rewind