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Meaning of CLOSING

Pronunciation:  'klowzing

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a concluding action
  2. [n]  termination of operations
  3. [n]  approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap; "the ship's rapid rate of closing gave them little time to avoid a collision"
  4. [n]  the act of closing something
  5. [n]  the last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want to say..."
  6. [adj]  final or ending; "the closing stages of the election"; "the closing weeks of the year"; "the closing scene of the film"; "closing remarks"
 
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 Synonyms: close, closedown, closure, completion, concluding, conclusion, culmination, end, ending, final, last, mop up, shutdown, shutting, terminal, terminative, windup, year-end
 
 Antonyms: opening, opening
 
 See Also: address, anticlimax, approach, approaching, bank closing, bathos, coda, coming, conclusion, ending, epilog, epilogue, finale, finalisation, finalization, finish, finishing, follow-through, graduation, layoff, motility, motion, move, movement, narration, peroration, plant closing, recital, section, speech, subdivision, termination, yarn

 

 

Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: abandonment, accommodation, adjustment, arrangement, blockade, breakoff, capping, cease, ceasing, cessation, close, closure, concluding, conclusion, consummative, consummatory, crowning, culminating, culminative, decline, desinence, desistance, discontinuance, discontinuation, end, ending, eventual, final, finish, finishing, hindmost, homestretch, lag, lapse, last lap, last round, last stage, latest, latter, occlusion, perfecting, perfective, period, relinquishment, renunciation, sealing, settlement, shutdown, shutting, shutting up, signature, signing, solemnization, stop, stopping, surcease, terminal, terminating, termination, ultimate
 

 

 

 

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