closure
noun
[ ˈkləʊʒə ]
• an act or process of closing something, especially an institution, thoroughfare, or frontier, or of being closed.
• "hospitals that face closure"
Similar:
closing down,
shutting down,
shutdown,
winding up,
termination,
discontinuation,
discontinuance,
cessation,
finish,
finishing,
conclusion,
concluding,
stoppage,
stopping,
halting,
ceasing,
failure,
folding,
• (in a legislative assembly) a procedure for ending a debate and taking a vote.
• "a closure motion"
• a sense of resolution or conclusion at the end of an artistic work.
• "he brings modernistic closure to his narrative"
closure
verb
• apply the closure to (a debate or speaker) in a legislative assembly.
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin clausura, from claus- ‘closed’, from the verb claudere .
