If a factory or business shuts down or if someone shuts it down , work there stops or it no longer trades as a business.
Smaller contractors had been forced to shut down...
It is required by law to shut down banks which it regards as chronically short of capital...
Mr Buzetta sold the newspaper’s assets to its competitor and shut it down.
PHRASAL VERB : V P , V P n (not pron) , V n P
see also shutdown