winddown
See also: wind down
English
Etymology
wind + down, from the verb phrase.
Noun
winddown (usually uncountable, plural winddowns)
- The process of winding something down.
- 2009 August 2, “Letters: Risk and Regulation”, in New York Times:
- Keeping this power apart from the Fed also prevents it from being drawn into the political maelstrom of whether to lend funds to a weakened institution or to seize it for an orderly winddown.
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Anagrams
- downwind