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  • 111close up — verb /kləʊzˈʌp/ a) To move people closer together. The crowd closed up and I couldnt get through to the train. b) To shut a building or a business for a period of time. We finally managed to close up the shop for the night at about 10 oclock …

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  • 112Close — 1. The end of a trading session. The closing price is quoted in the newspaper. 2. The final procedure in a home sale in which documents are signed and recorded. This is the time when the ownership of the property is transferred. The close of the… …

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  • 113close in — phr verb Close in is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑darkness, ↑fog, ↑weather …

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  • 114close — I Everyday English Slang in Ireland n humid, as in it s very close II Scottish Vernacular Dictionary noun: An alleyway, a passage at the rear of houses. The passageway leading into a tenement building. May also be referred to on the east coast as …

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  • 115close — [13] Close originally entered English as a verb. It came from clos , the past participial stem of Old French clore ‘shut’, which was a descendant of Latin claudere (related to Latin clāvis ‘key’, from which English gets clavier, clavichord,… …

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  • 116close in — 1) PHRASAL VERB If a group of people close in on a person or place, they come nearer and nearer to them and gradually surround them. [V P on n] Hitler himself committed suicide as Soviet forces were closing in on Berlin... [V P] As Parretti… …

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  • 117close by — prep. close to; in the vicinity …

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  • 118close up — n. photo taken from a close distance v. shut, lock; reduce profits …

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  • 119Close —   The period at the end of a trading session during which all transactions are considered to be made at the close …

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  • 120close in — (of days) get successively shorter with the approach of the winter solstice. → close to …

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