Usually means: Cease operations or turn off.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word shut down:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. shut down: Merriam-Webster
  2. shut down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shut down: Vocabulary.com
  4. Shut-Down, shut-down: Wordnik
  5. shut (sth) down: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. shut down: Wiktionary
  7. shut down: Dictionary.com
  8. Shut Down (Australian Crawl song), Shut Down (Beach Boys song), Shut Down (Prison Break), Shut Down (The Beach Boys song), Shut down: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. shut down: Rhymezone
  10. shut down: FreeDictionary.org
  11. shut down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. shut down: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shut-down, shut down: Encyclopedia

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

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

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

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

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

(Note: See shut_downs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (shut down)

verb:  (transitive) To close, terminate, or end.
verb:  (ergative) To turn off or stop.
verb:  (figuratively, intransitive) To emotionally withdraw into oneself as a defense mechanism; to block out external stressors.
verb:  (figurative, transitive) To suppress, block out, or reject (an idea or an aspect of one's personality or identity).
verb:  (slang, auto racing, car culture) To pass (another vehicle), especially quickly.

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