shut-ins in English
noun
1
a person confined indoors, especially as a result of physical or mental disability.
I'm finding I don't have much to write about after a week of being a sick shut-in .
2
a state or period in which an oil or gas well has available but unused capacity.
The federal Minerals Management Service said less than 1% of annual production in the region has been shut-in as a result of rig and platform evacuations related to Emily.
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1. He worked as a volunteer, delivering hot meals to shut-ins.
2. Anon is the hive mind of deviant fantasies and crude jokes inhabiting the subconscious of hermits, burnouts, stoners and suicidal shut-ins everywhere
3. 8 When elders make shepherding calls on shut-ins or the infirm, they can be alert to encourage these ones to participate in telephone witnessing.
4. It stars Dylan Penn as a rich youth who moves in with her musician boyfriend (Ronen Rubinstein) at a Condemned building populated by drug addicts, prostitutes, and shut-ins