winddown

noun

winddown

noun

Etymology Deverbal from wind down.

1

Usually The process of winding something down.

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.2009 August 2, “Letters: Risk and Regulation”, in New York Times:

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