How to say "shutdown" in Japanese

• 休業きゅうぎょうJLPT N2approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbCovers a shutdown as a temporary suspension of business: a store, school, or similar stops operating for a period or takes a scheduled closure day, with resumption expected.
  移転いてんにともない５月がつ３０日にち、３１日にちは休業きゅうぎょういたします。↗

  Due to our office moving, we will be closed from May 30 to 31.
• 閉鎖へいさJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbRefers to shutting a place or operation down — closure rather than a temporary pause — and, in labor disputes, to a lockout, where an employer closes the workplace to employees.

Use 休業 for a shutdown as a temporary suspension of business — a store or school closing for a time, reopening later — and 閉鎖 for shutting a place or operation down, including the labor-dispute sense of lockout.

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• 休業きゅうぎょうsuspension of business
• シャットダウンshutdown
• 閉鎖へいさshutdown