Meaning of CLOSING
Pronunciation: | | 'klowzing
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- [n] a concluding action
- [n] termination of operations
- [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"
- [n] the act of closing something
- [n] the last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want to say..."
- [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 |
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| 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 | |
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| 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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