The phrase "about to shutdown" is correct and usable in written English, although it is more commonly written as "about to shut down" with a space.
You can use it when indicating that something is on the verge of being turned off or ceasing operation.
Example: "The computer is about to shut down, so please save your work."
Alternatives: "on the verge of shutting down" or "nearly shutting down."
AS OF Thursday evening it appears that for the second time in my voting lifetime Republicans are about to force a shutdown of the federal government.
But I'd love to know what he thought about Stephen Strasburg, from draft day to shutdown day.
Bourbon distillers are about to go into shutdown mode.
And all this was happening the month before the federal government was about to go through another shutdown and debt ceiling scare and, as a very quotable federal budget expert, I was very much in demand as a pundit and commentator.
News had begun to buzz about hurricane-related shutdowns the following day, but for tonight planes were running, and Muslim travellers arrived through the evening to break their fast and offer prayers before scurrying off to make their flights.
He lives in Santa Cruz, Calif., about 2,800 miles from Washington, D.C., but the partial government shutdown is about to derail his plans to expand his business.
The chairwoman of the House Committee on Small Business is calling on President Trump to restart small-business lending as the government shutdown is about to become the longest ever.
The partial government shutdown is about to hit its two-week anniversary, and even with Democrats now controlling one chamber of Congress, there's no sign of any deal.
Republican senators reinforced that message behind closed doors in a meeting with Vice President Mike Pence in which they chastised the administration and insisted the time was now long overdue to bring an end to the shutdown, now about to start its sixth week.
BP is referring all questions about the shutdown to Alyeska.
