closing

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: clos=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

closing, adj. 

 final or ending; terminal; as, the closing stages of the election; the closing weeks of the year; the closing scene of the film; closing remarks. Opposite of opening.  [WordNet 1.5]

closing, n. 

•  the act of closing something.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  the last section of a communication.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  termination of operations.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  a concluding action.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  the final action in a commercial transaction, especially the meeting between buyer and seller (and in some cases mortgagee), or their representatives, in a transaction for sale of real estate in which all documents are signed and all procedures carried out to complete the sale; -- called also real estate closing.  [PJC]

THESAURUS

closing

abandonment, accommodation, adjustment, arrangement, blockade, breakoff, capping, cease, ceasing, cessation, close, closure, concluding, conclusion, consummative, consummatory, crowning, culminating, culminative, decline, desinence, desistance, discontinuance, discontinuation, end, ending, eventual, final, finish, finishing, hindmost, homestretch, lag, lapse, last lap, last round, last stage, latest, latter, occlusion, perfecting, perfective, period, relinquishment, renunciation, sealing, settlement, shutdown, shutting, shutting up, signature, signing, solemnization, stop, stopping, surcease, terminal, terminating, termination, ultimate