🤝 Deal finisher ⚾ Final pitcher ↔️ At a shorter distance 🔒 A person who shuts

closer

1 4.9

A person who locks up a building or business at night

noun
/ˈkloʊzər/

: encargado del cierre

So I will close it out now with this part that I can't know because I didn't see the closer.

Examples

Behind them is a line of, uh, file closers.

Gods and Generals (2003)
The event coordinator was the closer, ensuring that everything was taken care of before everyone left.
As the closer for the meeting, she made sure all the details were confirmed before ending the call.
In my job, the closer is responsible for locking up the office at the end of the day.

Antonyms

opener

Jargon

7 7.4

In baseball, a pitcher who starts the game but only pitches the first one or two innings

Compounds

breech closer

Specialized

9.9

A metal block that opens and closes the rear of a gun to allow loading a cartridge

closer shave

3.0

A way of cutting hair close to the skin to make skin smooth

Surface Forms

closer singular

closers plural

Morphology

closer = close (transparent) = close + er

Standard agent-noun formation from the verb 'close' (+ -er): 'one who closes'.

Etymology

Closer as a person comes from the verb close ('to shut') plus the ending -er that means a person who does something. So a closer is someone who 'shuts' a shop or building at the end of the day.