closer
/ˈkloʊ.zɚ/ noun C2- Someone or something that closes. · In our organization, the VP of Sales usually acts as the closer.
- Someone or something that concludes. · The DJ chose a fantastic track as his closer at the end of the night.
- Synonym of close (“the point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy”).
- The last stone in a horizontal course, if smaller than the others; a piece of brick finishing a course.
- A relief pitcher who specializes in getting the last three outs of the game. · They brought their closer in for the ninth.
- A horse that performs best toward the end of a race.
Plural closers
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It was easy to see that no doubt now remained in the young girl’s mind as to the reality of the scene; her eyes started with terror, her hands trembled, and she rapidly drew the bedclothes closer to her.
They kept close to the door and closer to one another, for the stillness of the empty room was more dreadful than any of the forms they had seen Oz take.
Every minute that white woolly plain which covered one-half of the moor was drifting closer and closer to the house.
At sight of him Madame de Villefort uttered an expression of pleasure, and, holding the child still closer towards her, she said:
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