shuttering

English

Noun

shuttering (countable and uncountable, plural shutterings)

1. The act of closing something with shutters.
2. (figurative) The winding down of a business, a publication, etc.
   • 2013, Richard J. Arndt, Horror Comics in Black and White: A History and Catalog, 1964-2004:

     In the long run, Marvel's B&W newsstand efforts outlasted the closing and shutterings of both Skywald and Warren's doors but the longest lived of their horror titles only lasted two years, from 1973–1975.

3. (construction) Formwork.
   • 1977, Jaques Heyman, Equilibrium of Shell Structures, Clarendon Press, Oxford, page 107:

     [I]n practice, small deformations will occur in the shell on striking the shuttering, or... alternatively, some small deformations are due to slightly imperfect placing of the original formwork.

Synonyms

• (act of stopping operations): shutdown

Derived terms

• shuttering carpenter

Related terms

• shutterer

Translations

shuttering — see formwork

Verb

shuttering

1. present participle and gerund of shutter

Further reading

• “shuttering”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “shuttering”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• hurtingest, reshutting