🏢 Closing a business 🏗️ Building panels 🚪 To close with panels 🪟 Closing windows

to shuttering

5.0

To cover windows or doors with panels to block light and stop a business from operating

verb
/ˈʃʌtərɪŋ/

: cerrar

Workers spent the afternoon shuttering the windows before the winter storm arrived.

Examples

The company is shuttering several of its branches due to financial difficulties.
They started shuttering the shops early as the hurricane approached the coast.
They are shuttering the windows before the storm.
The store shuttered its doors for good last week.
They started shuttering the shops early as the hurricane approached the coast.
Workers spent the afternoon shuttering the windows before the winter storm arrived.
The company is shuttering several of its branches due to financial difficulties.

Synonyms

shutdown

vsto shuttering

136 4.1

A time when a business, system, or service stops working

also refers to covering buildings and to stopping activity

plant closing

vsto shuttering

4 4.6

A factory or workplace stopping all work and ending jobs there

is broader, applying to building covers and other closures

shutting

vsto shuttering

3 1.0

An action that makes something closed like a door or book

is more specific, including fitted exterior covers and halting operations

Antonyms

opening

179 1.0

A space that lets people move through, for example a door

How Closed

sealing

9 3.2

to shuttering

5.0

closing

305 2.3

Surface Forms

shutter infinitive

shuttered past

shuttered past participle

shuttering present participle

shutters third person singular

Morphology

shuttering = shutter (transparent) = shutter + ing

Present participle of the verb 'shutter'; meaning is directly formed from the verb.

Etymology

Shuttering comes from shutter and the verb shut, meaning 'close'. So to 'shutter' a building or company is to close it up with panels or to stop its work, whether only for a while or permanently.