go bankrupt

idiom

: to be unable to pay one's debts
The company went bankrupt.

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Lovely added that while high tariffs will likely incentivize some new investment in the United States, there will also be pain as farmers and other exporters lose customers, lay off workers and go bankrupt in the trade war. Matt Egan, CNN, 18 Mar. 2025 The result is that development studios either go bankrupt or lay off many people to survive, while publishers hoard the remaining cash and try to downsize, although to a much more limited degree. Ollie Barder, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025 Whereas 97 percent of new airlines go bankrupt within the first seven years, Westjet grew its 37 million revenue in 1996 to 3.8 billion in 2019. Lieke Ten Brummelhuis, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024 In March, housing minister Ni Hong pledged that property firms that are severely insolvent and unable to operate should go bankrupt or restructure. Bloomberg, Fortune Asia, 26 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for go bankrupt

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“Go bankrupt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20bankrupt. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

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