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Shuttering

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of closing something with shutters. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    The winding down of a business, a publication, etc. countable, figuratively, uncountable

    "In the long run, Marvel's B&W newsstand efforts outlasted the closing and shutterings of both Skywald and Warren's doors but the longest lived of their horror titles only lasted two years, from 1973–1975."

  3. 3
    Formwork. countable, uncountable

    "[I]n practice, small deformations will occur in the shell on striking the shuttering, or... alternatively, some small deformations are due to slightly imperfect placing of the original formwork."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of shutter form-of, gerund, participle, present

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