Meaning of go bust | Babel Free

Definitions

To become bankrupt.

intransitive

Examples

“Several thousand companies go bust in the UK each year.”

“Steam gave a last hurrah for some, but North British went bust in 1962, unable to make the transition to modern traction.”

“It is not difficult to believe [...] that if an extra pat of butter were given on any one morning to each of the five hunderd boys the school would (to use their elegant expression) go bust!”

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