Usually means: Cease operation or stop functioning.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word shut off:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. shut off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shut off: Merriam-Webster
  3. shut off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shut-off, shut-off: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shut off: Vocabulary.com
  6. shut-off: Wordnik
  7. shut (sth) off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. shut-off, shut off: Wiktionary
  9. shut-off: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shut-off: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shut-off, shut off: Dictionary.com
  12. Shut off: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. shut off: Rhymezone
  14. shut off: FreeDictionary.org
  15. shut off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. shut-off, shut off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shut-off, shut off: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shut off: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shut off: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shut off: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shut off: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See shut_offs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (shut off)

verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To stop or turn off by closing something, such as a valve.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To switch off.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To separate; to isolate.

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