Usually means: Reduce activity or operations gradually.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word wind down:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. wind down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wind down: Merriam-Webster
  3. wind down, wind down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wind down: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Wind-down, wind-down: Wordnik
  6. wind (sth) down, wind down: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. wind down: Wiktionary
  8. wind-down: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. wind-down, wind down: Dictionary.com
  10. wind down: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wind down: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wind down: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wind down: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wind down: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wind down: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (wind down)

verb:  (transitive, of an object that can be raised or lowered) To lower by winding, as with a crank or windlass.
verb:  (transitive, of a device with a mainspring) To unwind.
verb:  (transitive) To shut down slowly (by degrees or in phases).
verb:  (intransitive) To slow, as if coming to an end; to become calmer or less busy.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To relax; to get rid of stress; to destress.

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