CLOSED SHOPS Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

closed shops

noun

plural of closed shop

as in galères

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Noun

Instead, pack blazers, dress shirts, and anything with structure in a garment bag, which requires fewer folds and lays flat.

— Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2026
Fifty folds makes the paper about 113 million km thick, so one more gets you past the sun—51 folds is about 225 million km.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of folds

Noun

The other applies to children of anyone working in a foreign embassy or representing a foreign government and employees of the United Nations or other international organizations.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
While investigations into their death continues, experts say there are indications that some of the influencers did have relationships with criminal organizations and were killed as acts of reprisal by rival factions.

— Rey Rodríguez, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of organizations

Noun

That is potentially significant because modern military operations increasingly depend on networks containing aircraft, ships, unmanned systems, sensors and command-and-control nodes from multiple organizations.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
The city’s manufacturing ecosystem depends on rough stones sourced from around the world, processed by tens of thousands of workers, and funneled into global markets through trading networks centered in Mumbai.

— Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of networks

Noun

Between 2000 and 2020, at least 1,160 elephants died in incidents linked to self-defense or retaliatory killings as communities sought to protect their crops, property and lives, the Plan notes.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
Sullivan believes this program will have a profound impact but cautions that simply planting trees is not the sole solution for making communities safer.

— Tara Molina, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of communities

Noun

Now, with the model bill, state lawmakers could force their public colleges to toe the compact’s conservative line.

— Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
The tool combines enrollment information on approximately 130 colleges, universities and private career centers and more than 4,200 credit and noncredit programs.

— Kat Ramkumar, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of colleges

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That era involved small cliques of devs talking a big game about decentralization (which often provided a pretext for no accountability) while shilling tokens at all turns.

— Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 20 July 2026
Since its inception, social media has been a proving ground for tween fashion and identity, offering under-16s a digital canvas to experiment with their style and form online cliques around niche interests.

— Sophie Lou Wilson, Vogue, 2 July 2026

Definition of cliques

Noun

Bryan DiGirolamo, special agent in charge of ATF New York, told CNN the more guns are traced, the more crimes between the US and Canada can be linked, ultimately exposing trafficking rings.

— Mark Morales, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
While formal entertaining is less common today, finding napkin rings, butter pats, and sterling silver tableware is a true treasure.

— Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of rings

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