close in, cash-stuffed envelopes. Clean rooms, a vital part of semiconductor factories, are showing up in Japanese universities, where aspiring tech innovators conduct research.

Clean rooms, a vital part of semiconductor factories, are showing up in Japanese universities, where aspiring tech innovators conduct research.

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China Closes In on U.S. as Largest Web Market

China's total number of Internet users rose 53% to 210 million at the end of 2007.

Examples

• What we need now is TV to explain what the hell is going on so we can sleep easy on our cash-stuffed mattresses again.
  It's a good week for … Money
• Obviously in this day and age cash-stuffed envelopes is not the only method; probably not even the most common method.
  Matthew Yglesias » One Man’s Inefficiency is Another Man’s Job
• A number of companies are raising dividends and cash-stuffed banks may increase dividends, too.

cash-stuffed envelopes

close in

1. Surround, enclose, envelop, as in The fog closed in and we couldn't see two yards in front of us, or She felt the room was closing in. [c. 1400]
2. Also, close in on or upon. Draw in, approach, as in The police closed in on the suspect. [Early 1800s]
close in phrasal verb
to gradually get nearer to someone, usually in order to attack them:
The advancing soldiers closed in on the town.
The hunt chased the fox until it was too tired and weak to run and then closed in for the kill.