close of play

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close of play

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uncountable The end of a day's play.
Similar: stumps
uncountable The end of the final game (not to be confused with set or match) during a day at the Wimbledon Championships.
broadly, uncountable The end of the working day. In fact, in our global financial institution, close of play was taken to be 1615 EST with all subsequent trades going on to the next day

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@misc{close_of_play_2026,
  title = {close of play},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/close%20of%20play},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}