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   closure

   /ˈkləʊʒə/

   noun

   • 1. an act or process of closing something, especially an institution, thoroughfare, or frontier, or of being closed: "hospitals that face closure"
   • ▪ a thing that closes or seals something, such as a cap or tie.
   • 2. (in a legislative assembly) a procedure for ending a debate and taking a vote: "a closure motion"
   • 3. a sense of resolution or conclusion at the end of an artistic work: "he brings modernistic closure to his narrative"
   • ▪ a feeling that an emotional or traumatic experience has been resolved: "I am desperately trying to reach closure but I don't know how to do it without answers from him"

   verb

   • 1. apply the closure to (a debate or speaker) in a legislative assembly.

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin clausura, from claus- ‘closed’, from the verb claudere.

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