winddown

See also: wind down

English

Etymology

Deverbal of wind down.

Noun

winddown (usually uncountable, plural winddowns)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• downwind