plant closing
4
4.6
- noun
- US
:
cierre de planta
- The speech, especially about the plant closing, was chilling.
Examples
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Furthermore, with cutbacks and plant closings, unemployment started to grow.
Academic text (1991) -
There are also the issues of layoffs and plant closings that can raise bargaining issues with respect to a unionized workforce that would not exist with respect to non-unionized employees.
Academic text (1996) -
The thing is that, um... l told them about the plant closing... and, uh, they seem really interested.
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Ethanol may remain the primary source type, despite some plant closings.
Blog text (13) -
Its sole purpose is to investigate and explore the impact that a plant closing would have on the community as a whole before any action is taken.
Academic text (1990) -
The municipally owned hospital in this community, plagued by plant closings, is the region's primary engine of economic development.
Academic text (2017) -
Consolidation followed in 1984-85, with plants closing in Moss Point, Miss., Morgan City, La., and Cameron, La.
Academic text (1991) -
Accordingly, the plant closings that the anti-FTA lobby and the media blamed on the agreement have no basis in fact.
Academic text (1991) -
Other laws, such as the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988, which requires employers to give advance notice of plant closings and mass layoffs, are triggered by the number of full-time workers a company has on its payroll.
Academic text (1998) -
The recent plant closing in the area resulted in many layoffs, affecting the local economy.
Synonyms
136
4.1
A time when a business, system, or service stops working
46
4.7
The permanent end of a business, school, or service
3
1.0
An action that makes something closed like a door or book
1
5.6
Closing a business or service so it stops operating
1
4.2
A permanent end to a business, factory, or service
How Permanent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'plant' (factory or production facility) combined with 'closing' (the act of bringing something to an end) yields the shutting down of that facility. This noun+noun/nominalized construction follows common English and cross-linguistic patterns (e.g., Spanish 'cierre de la planta'), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Plant closing is almost literal: a plant is a factory or large workplace and closing means shutting its doors. Imagine the gates locked and machines silent, so the phrase means 'stopping all work' at that site and often 'losing jobs'.