Usually means: Company fails financially, ceases operations.
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  1. go bust: Merriam-Webster
  2. go bust: Collins English Dictionary
  3. go bust: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. go bust: Dictionary.com
  5. go bust: TheFreeDictionary.com
  6. go bust: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  7. go bust: Wiktionary

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▸ verb:  (intransitive) To become bankrupt.

Similar:
go bankrupt, break, go under, bankrupt, go belly-up, blow up, bust up, bust, implode, fail, more...

Opposite:
succeed, thrive, prosper, flourish

Phrases:
to go bust, more...

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Similar:
go bankrupt, break, go under, bankrupt, go belly-up, blow up, bust up, bust, implode, fail, more...

Opposite:
succeed, thrive, prosper, flourish

Phrases:
to go bust, more...



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