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go bust

go bust verb: to become bankrupt.

Verb

go bust (third-person singular simple present goes bust, present participle going bust, simple past went bust, past participle gone bust)

  1. (intransitive) To become bankrupt.
    • 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.2025 January 8, Philip Haigh, “Will all of the UK train assembly lines survive?”, in RAIL, number 1026, page 50

go bust meaning in Malayalam

go bust in Malayalam

fail, collapse, fold
പരാജയപ്പെടുക, തകരുക, പൊട്ടുക, ഇടിവു സംഭവിക്കുക, നിലംപൊത്തുക, അധഃപതിക്കുകു

Synonyms of go bust

Forms of go bust

third-person singular presentgoes bust
present participlegoing bust
pastwent bust
past participlegone bust

Questions about go bust

What does go bust mean?
Go bust means to become bankrupt.
What is go bust in Malayalam?
Go bust in Malayalam is പരാജയപ്പെടുക, തകരുക, പൊട്ടുക. See Go bust meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is go bust?
Go bust is a verb.
What is the past tense of go bust?
The past tense of go bust is went bust.

Words near go bust in the dictionary

  1. go bitchcakes
  2. go bonkers
  3. go both ways
  4. go brrr
  5. go bush
  6. go bust
  7. go by
  8. go by the board
  9. go by the name of
  10. go by the wayside
  11. go bye-bye

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Adapted from Wiktionary: go bust (page history and authors); go bust (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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