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shut down

  1. See close down , def. 1.

  2. Stop or switch off machinery, as in They shut down all the machines for one week a year . [Late 1800s]



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The Co-op has shut down parts of its IT systems in response to hackers attempting to gain access to them.

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Since the case of the ranch broke open, authorities say, Mexican officials have shut down dozens of online sites linked to organized crime recruiting operations.

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I heard one of them had to shut down an eagle cam because they were mad at the park service, because they weren’t intervening.

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Every space telescope besides the Hubble and the James Webb would be shut down.

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Funding cuts could merely hobble the lab’s staff and prevent the model from ever being advanced, or its operations could be shut down entirely, the responsibility perhaps passed on to another agency’s models.

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