1
: one that shuts
2
: a usually movable cover or screen for a window or door
3
: a mechanical device that limits the passage of light
especially
: a camera component that allows light to enter by opening and closing an aperture
4
: the movable louvers in a pipe organ by which the swell box is opened
shuttered; shuttering; shutters
1
: to close by or as if by shutters
corporations shuttering their production plants
2
: to furnish with shutters
Examples of shutter in a Sentence
Verb
They locked the doors and shuttered the windows.
They declared bankruptcy and shuttered the store.
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Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
Hanoi’s Metropole Hotel sits imposingly on a corner in the city center, bright white with neat black shutters.
—Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025
Eric Katzman, New York Daily News, 25 May 2025
Key Background The record-breaking Memorial Day box office comes as movie theaters have been fighting over the past few years to regain audiences following the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced cinemas to temporarily shutter.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
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Noun
Those with traditional cameras should use wide-angle lenses, low shutter speeds and high apertures.
—Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
Hanoi’s Metropole Hotel sits imposingly on a corner in the city center, bright white with neat black shutters.
—Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025
Verb
Jet fuel fumes and noise from heliports have been a source of complaints from communities for decades, leading Mayor Giuliani to shutter the E. 60th St. heliport in 1997.
—Eric Katzman, New York Daily News, 25 May 2025
Key Background The record-breaking Memorial Day box office comes as movie theaters have been fighting over the past few years to regain audiences following the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced cinemas to temporarily shutter.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
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“Shutter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shutter. Accessed 30 May. 2025.
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shutter
1 of 2 noun
shut·ter
ˈshət-ər 
1
: a movable cover for a window that swings on hinges like a door
2
: a device in a camera that opens to allow light to enter when a picture is taken
shutter
2 of 2 verb
: to close with or by shutters
kept the house shuttered
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