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Noun: closeout  'klowz,awt
Usage: US
  1. A sale intended to dispose of all remaining stock
    "The store held a closeout sale before shutting down permanently"
Verb: close out
  1. Terminate by selling off or disposing of
    "He closed out his line of sports cars"
     
  2. To finish off
    "We closed out our account"
     
  3. Make impossible, especially beforehand
    "The new policy closed out any possibility of negotiations";
    - preclude, rule out

Derived forms: closes out, closing out, closed out, closeouts

See also: decree

Type of: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, cut-rate sale, discard, dispose, eliminate, end, fling, obviate, put away, rid of, sale, sales event, terminate, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out

Encyclopedia: Closeout

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