English-French translations for shutter

• contrevent
• obturateur
• persienne
• volet
  En son temps, il avait profité à Staline, qui avait fermé les volets et commencé à massacrer son peuple. In its time it was a gift to Stalin, who pulled down the shutters and began having his own people killed.
  Lorsque des problèmes apparaissent, ce qui ne manquera jamais d'arriver, la BCE ne devrait pas masquer les fissures et fermer les volets. When problems occur, and they always will, it should not be the job of the ECB to paper over the cracks and pull down the shutters.

Definition of shutter

• One who shuts or closes something
• Protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light
• To close shutters covering
• To close up for a prolonged period of inoccupancy
• To cancel or terminate

Examples

• Shutter the windows: theres a storm coming!
• It took all day to shutter the cabin now that the season has ended.
• The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program.

Related words

• shutters
• shutterbug
• shutterer
• shutter release
• shutter button
• shutter speed
• shutter-release button
• ) shutter-release button
• window shutter