Synonym: block, blockage, closedown, closing, cloture, gag law, gag rule, law of closure, occlusion, resolution, settlement, shutdown, stop, stoppage. Similar words: enclosure, disclosure, foreclosure, composure, exposure, cynosure, discomposure, closed fracture. Meaning: ['kləʊʒə] 
n. 1. approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap 2. a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body 3. a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric 4. something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making 5. an obstruction in a pipe or tube 6. the act of blocking 7. termination of operations. v. terminate debate by calling for a vote.
n. 1. approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap 2. a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body 3. a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric 4. something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making 5. an obstruction in a pipe or tube 6. the act of blocking 7. termination of operations. v. terminate debate by calling for a vote. 
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(151) Contractors BAe has already announced the closure of its plant in Hatfield, Herts.
(152) Effects of school closure on material existence of community. 6.
(153) With the beginning of the closure programme in the pits the situation changed dramatically.
(154) It displayed particular concern over a possible closure of the Strait of Hormuz and a determination to take action to avoid this.
(155) Barr Thomson blamed the Government's pit closure announcement for its failure.
(156) On April 7 the government ordered the closure of all schools and the university, and declared the current academic year invalid.
(157) Management were meeting staff this afternoon to reveal details of the closure plan, which would mean job losses.
(158) Some try to match the closure programme to meet the Staff needs.
(159) There was a strong element of a gamble on the future in any psychiatric hospital closure.
(160) The pattern is certainly not one of total closure or exclusion.
(161) Thus social closure is still real, and tickets to the top depend on property, connections or elite education.
(162) Russell Telford was protesting against the possible closure of 31 pits.
(163) The party programme advocates the closure of all nuclear power stations and the reform of the industrial system.
(164) In addition,(www.Sentencedict.com) there is still considerable social closure and self-recruitment at the very top of the occupational structure.
(165) In the caste system social closure is achieved through prohibitions which prevent members of a caste from marrying outside their caste.
(166) Rhys was to receive the potentially life-saving operation at the unit before its closure.
(167) From 1977 to 1987, the scale of plant closure and/or contraction in many cities was extremely dramatic.
(168) Next day the rector of the Sorbonne summoned police to a student protest against the closure of Nanterre.
(169) The hospitals more remote from their catchment area were thus the natural early candidates for closure.
(170) But the staff were told this only weeks before the closure.
(171) Nalgo members were protesting at the proposed closure of a 24-hour crisis intervention centre.
(172) She knows from inside the sadness of a hospital closure.
(173) Aside from the issue of funding beyond the enabling schemes, how were services in the catchment area working after the closure?
(174) He found himself under severe pressure last year when the pit closure programme was announced.
(175) While cases remain open, more clients are re-assessed, and after closure more are re-referred.
(176) The damage caused by this closure will continue to be felt for many years.
(177) The closure was doubly important because the catchment area covered the inner London districts of Westminster, Paddington and Hammersmith.
(178) Many writers consider that the closure by 1981 of older large plants itself artificially improved the overall average of output per worker.
(179) In July 1938 the official announcement of passenger closure came.
(180) No doubt many middle aged and older people our area will remember the original railway before its closure and subsequent preservation.
More similar words: enclosure, disclosure, foreclosure, composure, exposure, cynosure, discomposure, closed fracture, glycosuria, close, microsurgery, closet, closer, enclose, close to, close up, closest, close off, close in, closing, closely, close down, close-set, encloser, enclosed, disclose, be close to, enclosing, closeness, disclosed.