Question

The local factory will close down soon, unless sales pick up.  IPAhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet(keyhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation): /kləʊzˈdaʊn/

Accepted Answer

(transitivehttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transitive, intransitivehttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intransitive) To stop tradinghttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trading as a businesshttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/business.

Sentence	The local factory will close down soon, unless sales pick up.
Definition	( transitive https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transitive , intransitive https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intransitive ) To stop trading https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trading as a business https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/business .
Pronunciation	IPA https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet ^{(key https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation )}: /kləʊzˈdaʊn/

Local Factory Close Sales Pick Stop Kləʊzˈdaʊn