It actually closed shop a year earlier than planned, and earned a tidy profit.
Taxi driving, a job in which immigrants often predominate, is another closed shop.
New-home sales are sluggish and many builders have either closed shop or filed for bankruptcy court protection.
Stiles closed shop and also packed to leave the territory.
The military regime runs a firmly closed shop without openness and contrary views.
British Dictionary definitions for closed shop
closed shop
noun
1.
(formerly) an industrial establishment in which there exists a contract between a trade union and the employer permitting the employment of the union's members only Compare open shop, union shop
closed shop in Culture
closed shop definition
Technically, a business in which employees must join a labor union before being hired. This practice is now illegal. The term is used synonymously with union shop.