Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which shuts off, closes, stops, or prevents; stoppage of anything; specifically, in hunting and fishing, the close-season for game.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
shutoff .
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Examples
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We urge Mayor Weisner to shut-off the entire ward drug fund and it's time for the wild spending city council members to get help with their addiction or get out.
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For heaven's sake, shut-off this half breed of sheep and goat!
Lieberman: Obama should delay trying to cover the uninsured 2009
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We urge Mayor Weisner to shut-off the entire ward drug fund and it's time for the wild spending city council members to get help with their addiction or get out.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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As the City of Aurora's so-called corporation counsel, Weingartz has routinely shut-off people during their public comments if 3 minutes have expired.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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So the bean counters at the oil companies decide it's cheaper to take a chance on ruining the Gulf of Mexico and all the industries dependent upon it like fishing, shrimping and tourism (not to mention the wildlife), than to put in place voluntary safeguards like a remote-controlled emergency shut-off valve, called a blowout preventer.
Durbin: New safety standards likely for offshore drilling 2010
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Critics at the Pipeline Safety Trust would also like to see pipeline operators continue to replace manual shut-off valves with automatic and remote shut-offs, especially after the San Bruno incident.
Development in once-rural areas put populations closer to natural gas pipelines Kimberly Lankford 2010
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Critics at the Pipeline Safety Trust would also like to see pipeline operators continue to replace manual shut-off valves with automatic and remote shut-offs, especially after the San Bruno incident.
Development in once-rural areas put populations closer to natural gas pipelines Kimberly Lankford 2010
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The interface technology now available between the microgrid and the macrogrid utilizes power-converter technology that does not permit outside signals to cause a main shut-off.
Rep. Martin Heinrich: Developing a More Secure Smart Grid for the Nation Rep. Martin Heinrich 2010
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At more than $112 a barrel, oil prices are just below their recent highs, thanks to political turmoil in the Middle East and the shut-off of oil exports from Libya.
Iraq Tackles Its Next Oil Bottleneck Hassan Hafidh 2011
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It was Mid-Tern exam time, and her computer access was shut-off.
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