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shutout

/ˈʃʌtˌaʊt/

shutout noun: closing and forbidding entry, as a lockout in which management prevents works from working.

Noun

shutout (plural shutouts)

  1. Closing and forbidding entry, as a lockout in which management prevents works from working.
    • A shutout is a reverse strike: the union complained and the workers wanted to work, but management was opposed.
  2. A game that ends with the losing side being held scoreless.
    • The score wasn't just lopsided: it was a shutout.

shutout meaning in Bengali and Gujarati

shutout in Bengali

শাটআউট

shutout in Gujarati

શાટઆઉટ

Synonyms of shutout

Forms of shutout

pluralshutouts

Plural of shutout: shutouts

Origin of shutout

Deverbal from shut out.

Words formed from shutout

Questions about shutout

What does shutout mean?
Shutout means closing and forbidding entry, as a lockout in which management prevents works from working.
What is shutout in Bengali?
Shutout in Bengali is শাটআউট. See Shutout meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is shutout?
Shutout is a noun.
How do you pronounce shutout?
Shutout is pronounced /ˈʃʌtˌaʊt/.
What is the plural of shutout?
The plural of shutout is shutouts.

Words near shutout in the dictionary

  1. shutins
  2. shutki
  3. shutness
  4. shutoff
  5. shutoffs
  6. shutout
  7. shutouts
  8. shuts
  9. shuts away
  10. shuts down
  11. shuts in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shutout (page history and authors); shutout (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shutout (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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