(intransitive, British, colloquial) To close up shop; to end a business activity.
The company decided to shut up shop in this country and move to America, where corporate taxes are lower.
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(intransitive, cricket) To bat defensively in the last innings of a match in order to force a draw when winning is not possible.
Instead of shutting up shop, Ghouneim relocated to humdrum Wittenau, a suburb of Berlin, and got some tape artists to decorate the facade of the new building.
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(intransitive, football) To play extremely defensively.
After months of bitter disagreements and legal back-and-forth, he had finally given up and struck out on his own, but he'd met with a string of bad luck—a client who refused to pay, a flood, a false insurance claim—and he'd had to shut u…
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