close out

verb closes out · closing out · closed out

1. transitive To terminate; to call the end of. Lisicki recovered quickly enough and broke once again at 1-1, using her heavy to serve to dominate before a sweetly-struck backhand down the line closed out the set after 43 minutes.
2. transitive Synonym of close (“to make a sale”). Sales people are taught how to close out the deal. Buyers are less well trained but protect themselves with processes that stop the seller from reaching this stage.

   Similar: close

3. intransitive To settle, to pay what is due. Much to the dismay of bartenders, many 20-somethings prefer to close out and pay after every drink, no matter how many beverages they end up ordering.
4. of a wave To break all at once, instead of progressively along its length. You either want to land on the top of the wave (if it has closed out), or in the transition
5. To terminate a computer program.

   Opposite: open up

6. transitive To exclude by blocking all opportunities to enter or join. Gerrard plainly had other ideas as he set off on that final, driving run into the opposition penalty area, slaloming between Kamil Glik and Grzegorz Wojtkowiak and getting his shot away as a third defender, Artur Jedzejczyk, and the goalkeeper, Wojciech Szczesny, tried to close him out.
7. To make trades offsetting an existing position, leaving the trader with a neutral position.
8. To seal off. One week later, the new Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-C) was loaded on Discovery and the payload bay doors were cleared and closed out.