The word "closedown" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to the closure of a business or organization temporarily or permanently. For example: "The restaurant is having a closedown for the summer while the staff takes their vacation."
Alice Fisher Physicists will be watching the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva in March when the particle smasher is set to return to action after a two-year closedown.
The important point is to make the decision in enough time, while you still have choices, be that an orderly closedown, merger or takeover, or transfer of assets to a charity working in the same area.
"In the past you got a more enthusiastic sound from the hum at closedown than from the commentators, now they were positively animated about Keane's terrible dive to earn the red card (their words, not mine).
Inside, viewers can relax on sofas and watch an old-fashioned TV screening Hiller's video of the same name, a landmark work that was first broadcast late at night on Channel 4. It shows a flickering fire and its soundtrack includes eerie ritualistic singing and a whispering voice reading newspaper reports of alien messages broadcast on domestic TVs after closedown.
Midnight and closedown … Anything else we should be looking at?
Is he concerned about the imminent closedown?
Presbyterianism's complicated relationship with the festival meant that Scotland held out for some time against the English trend, preferring a closedown at New Year.
But the origins of our national closedown, longer and deeper than any other country's – even France in August – are older than that, and more arcane.
Apple did not give a reason for the closedown.
Airlines and tour operators have expressed scepticism that the ash levels in the atmosphere merited the unprecedented closedown of European airspace.
