Meaning of take under | Babel Free

Definitions

To bring to insolvency; to drive (a business) into financial distress.

transitive

Examples

“I knew she didn’t have to be here, out in the sun with me trying to do whatever I could to keep this fire from taking the business under, but she was”

“The costs associated with Patagonia's shift to organic material nearly took the company under, but given the company values, it almost had no choice.”

“It's believed that the Great Depression then took the business under.”

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