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The phrase "a shut down" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a cessation of operations or activities, often in a technical or organizational context.
Example: "The company announced a shut down of its manufacturing plant for maintenance."
Alternatives: "a closure" or "a halt".
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The upshot will surely be new regulation at the very least, conceivably even a shut down.
Counter-protesters also spent weeks planning what they called a "shut down Nazi rally".
Activists are planning a "Shut Down Homan Square" protest on Saturday and a demonstration for reparations for longstanding victims of Chicago police torture on Monday.
The agenda for a "Shut Down the Corporations" day on Wednesday included a morning protest outside the East 42nd Street headquarters of Pfizer, at which officers outnumbered the 60 or 70 protesters, according to The Associated Press.
Channel A shut down operations in 1997, less than a year after Yoon arrived.
Leon Charney, another real estate titan, fears "a shut down of lending by banks" may continue to hobble the economy.
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A shut-down library is a shut-down library, however you spin it.
Benoit, who has been a shut-down pitcher for the Tigers, in the game for Detroit.
"If it were unanimous that everyone was calling for a shut-down, it becomes a possibility.
I arrived two days early, to a shut-down Midwestern American tourist town in the middle of February.
On the other is an abandoned one-truck firehouse and a shut-down strip of three weathered, one-story shops.
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