Definition: 1. Approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap. 2. A rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body. 3. A Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric. 4. Something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making.
Use 'closure' in a sentence:
1. Time for closure, they say.
2. However, visitors will be compensated during the closure.
3. We haven't yet been told officially about the closure.
4. The hospital has been threatened with closure.
5. They are arguing against hospital closures.
6. I asked McKeown if the reunion was meant to achieve closure.
7. The factory has been earmarked for closure.
8. The crisis has led to the closure of a number of non-essential government services.
9. Visitors will be compensated during the closure.
10. The closure of the factory dealt a lethal blow to the town.
11. The reasons for closure are multifarious.
12. The RSC was calling a press conference to announce the theatre's closure.
13. The closure of the project is bad news for her staff.
14. The city suffered another blow last month with the closure of the local car factory.
15. Action helps you create closure.
16. The crisis has led to the closure of a number of nonessential government services.
17. Every store closure is closely scrutinised internally and externally.
18. I asked McKean if the reunion was meant to achieve closure.
19. The closure of the factory will lead to a number of job losses.
20. Patient advocates are up in arms over the possible closure of the psychiatric hospital.
21. The conviction of their son's murderer helped to give them a sense of closure.
22. Overnight storms left many streets underwater and forced the closure of road tunnels in the city.
23. Almost three in four clinics say they face closure by the end of the year.
24. The village school may face eventual closure.
25. The ultimate sanction will be the closure of the restaurant.
26. The bus had to deviate from its usual route because of a road closure.
27. Closure of the hospitals was phased over a three-year period.
28. The pit was one of the 31 earmarked for closure by the Trade and Industry Secretary.
29. Other areas are to lose aid so that money can be reallocated to towns devastated by pit closures.
30. The theatre faces closure unless it gets an urgent cash injection.
31. The company's closure has left many small businessmen in desperate financial straits.
32. Campaigners have won a reprieve for the hospital threatened with closure.
33. The closure left 500 people jobless.
34. Bus services will be disrupted tomorrow because of the bridge closure.
35. This could mean the closure of thousands of small businesses which serve the community.
36. The trigger for the strike was the closure of yet another factory.
37. The closure of the factory is a retrograde step.
38. The suggested closures came under assault from all parties.
39. The government had failed to stem the tide of factory closures.
40. Why would the closure of hospitals be in the public interest?
41. The closure of the factory is likely to cost 1 000 jobs.
42. The closure of the mine was the single most important factor in the town's decline.
43. Labour quickly moved a closure motion to end the debate.
