Betekenis van shutdown In het Nederlands

• 0 an occasion when a business or large piece of equipment stops operating, usually for a temporary period:

  • It's just a regular maintenance shutdown.

  • The emergency shutdown procedure was activated.

• 1 the act of closing a factory or business or of stopping a machine:

  • The shutdown of the military base is scheduled for next summer.

• 2 the act or process of ending the operations of a business, system, industry, etc., either temporarily or permanently:

  • The stock market has just resumed trading after a two-week shutdown.

  • Release of the figures was delayed by the partial shutdown of federal agencies in December and January.

  • The crowd gathered to celebrate the shutdown of the old power plant.

  • government/refinery/plant shutdown

• 3 the act or process of stopping the operation of a computer or other machine:

  • The huge machine began its automatic shutdown.

  • an engine/system shutdown