Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - closing time

(closing times) Closing time is the time when something such as a shop, library, or pub closes and people have to leave. We were in the pub until closing time. N-VAR CLOSURE (closures) 1. The closure of a place such as a business or factory is the permanent ending of the work or activity there. ...the closure of the Ravenscraig steelworks... Almost three in four clinics say they face closure by the end of the year. N-VAR 2. The closure of a road or border is the blocking of it in order to prevent people from using it. N-COUNT: usu with supp 3. If someone achieves closure, they succeed in accepting something bad that has happened to them. (mainly AM) I asked McKeown if the reunion was meant to achieve closure. N-UNCOUNT