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• The employment rate was so far behind, there were many company shutdowns.From the entry shutdowns
• The COVID-19 epidemic and shutdown took some businesses under.From the entry under
• The proposed shutdown would exacerbate unemployment problems.From the entry exacerbate
• Some employees are still at work, with the promise of back pay when the shutdown ends.2026 March 23, Barry Petchesky, “ICE Agents Deployed To Nation’s Swamped Airports To Stand Around And Do Nothing”, in Defector, archived…. From the entry forego
• The case for a shutdown is this: A shutdown is an attentional event.2025 September 7, Ezra Klein, “Stop Funding Trump’s Takeover”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry attentional
• I stim to self-regulate and to avoid sensory overload, meltdowns, or shutdowns in environments that are inaccessible.2021, Erin Felepchuk, “Stimming, Improvisation, and COVID-19: (Re)negotiating Autistic Sensory Regulation During a Pandemic”, in…. From the entry self-regulate
• Furlough fertility was a big discussion among federal workers in D.C. during government shutdowns.2020 March 23, Petula Dvorak, “Will coronavirus intimacy lead to a baby boom? Or a divorce tsunami?”, in The Washington Post, Washington…. From the entry coronababy
• Wayne Zandarco says he doesn't have a Plan B for a possible shutdown of bus service.2014 September 19, CBC News, Saskatoon bus riders rattled by possible lockout. From the entry hooped
• Windows and Linux are two operating systems that require a graceful shutdown.2009, Dale Liu, Cisco Router and Switch Forensics. From the entry graceful
• A devastating collision on I-95 Tuesday afternoon prompted an overnight shutdown of the interstate’s southbound lanes near Yemassee.2025 July 23, Evan McKenna, “2 dead in large-scale I-95 crash near Yemassee; southbound lanes shuttered overnight”, in Yahoo! News. From the entry Yemassee
• “After the shutdowns, everything was coming back to life, things were getting better, you had opportunities to choose from,” said Ms.2022 October 7, Emma Goldberg, “The Job Market Has Been Like Musical Chairs. Will the Music Stop?”, in The New York Times. From the entry economywise
• "We are tired of the shutdowns and the showdowns, the gridlock and the grandstanding," Klobuchar said in a speech to supporters.2019 February 10, Elena Schneider, "Klobuchar jumps into presidential race". From the entry grandstanding
• Bombardier’s core lock screening procedure requires a cool-down period before engine shutdown to stabilize internal temperatures and clearances.2007 January 9, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.18.2 Core Lock”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Crash of Pinnacle Airlines Flight…. From the entry flameout
• During process operations and temporary shutdown, the holdup within the facility is also known as the in-process inventory.1989, Energy Research Abstracts, page 2046. From the entry hold-up
• The excess returns were explained by a common risk factor driven by fluctuations in cryptoasset trade volume and by the likelihood of cryptoexchange shutdowns.2020, Sinan Krückeberg, Peter Scholz, “Decentralized Efficiency? Arbitrage in Bitcoin Markets”, in Financial Analysts Journal, volume 76…. From the entry cryptoexchange
• But if the shutdown ends because Democrats blink first, the era of good feeling quickly will be replaced by anger and disappointment."2018 January 22, Julie Pace, “Shutdown puts spotlight on Democratic leader Schumer”, in The Times of Israel, archived from the original on…. From the entry go to the mats
• Lactase persistence is under fairly direct genetic control and involves genes that inhibit the typical mammalian shutdown of the production of lactase after nursing ends.2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 6, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN. From the entry lactase persistence
• The purpose of this wasteway is to provide for emergency waste in the canal in case of unscheduled shutdown of the relift pumping plant.1985, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Lake Andes-Wagner Unit. From the entry relift
• Congestion off China's top two container ports Shanghai and Ningbo is worsening following the shutdown of a container terminal in Ningbo where a COVID-19 case was detected this week.2021 August 12, Muyu Xu, Gavin Maguire, “Major container ports in eastern China see worsening congestion after COVID-19 cases”, in Kim…. From the entry Ningbo
• The former superintendent of Joshua Tree national park has said it could take hundreds of years to recover from damage caused by visitors during the longest-ever government shutdown.2019 January 29, Ashley Boucher, “Joshua Tree national park ‘may take 300 years to recover’ from shutdown”, in The Guardian. From the entry government shutdown
• Some employees will continue working through the government shutdown, however, including the three with the longest commute: NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Joseph Acaba, and Scott Tingle.2018 January 20, Marina Koren, “What Happens to Astronauts During a Government Shutdown?”, in The Atlantic. From the entry government shutdown
• Andrews did not know he could do it without SCRAMing the reactor—in other words, pushing it into an automatic shutdown that might be too little too late.2012 December 12, D. Michael Battey, chapter 35, in Tenacity Gene, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 174. From the entry scram
• The water stops, but there's still quite a lot of residual heat in the furnacey bit which made the boiler bump and boil for a few seconds after shutdown.2010 December 22, Skipweasel, “Re: Thrice woe.”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet), message-ID <MPG.277be9ce5eba144c989d38@news.virginmedia.com>. From the entry furnacey
• While planned shutdown for overhailing and maintenance is a regular feature of a power supply system, continued and unplanned outages from installed units require immediate corrective steps.2000, Asom Prakalpa (Group), Assam beyond 2000, page 62. From the entry overhail
• Blowoff structures are provided at or near the low point of relatively long inverted siphons to permit draining the pipe for inspection and maintenance or wintertime shutdown.1974, United States. Bureau of Reclamation, Design of Small Canal Structures, page 375. From the entry blowoff

Meaning of shutdown

1. noun The action of stopping operations; a closing, of a computer, business, event, etc.
2. noun A statement, insult, etc. that prevents the opponent from replying further.
3. noun An autistic response to stress or sensory overload, in which the individual freezes up and becomes silent, motionless, and unresponsive.

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How do you use shutdown in a sentence?

Shutdown is used as a noun. For example: “You need to enter your password at startup, but it's not required at shutdown.”

What is a short sentence with shutdown?

“The proposed shutdown would exacerbate unemployment problems.”

What does shutdown mean?

Shutdown means the action of stopping operations; a closing, of a computer, business, event, etc.