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going concerns

going concerns is the plural of going concern.

Meaning of going concern

Noun

going concern (plural going concerns)

  1. A successfully operating enterprise.
    • If the bank does not act swiftly to push the CDS price back down, the regulator seizes the assets, wipes out shareholders and sacks the management. The bank is recapitalised as a going concern and later sold.2009 May 14, “Dilute or die”, in The Economist
  2. (broadly) A person who is active, thriving, energetic, and highly successful in their endeavors.
    • ‘H’m! he’s dead orright...I never seen anyone look deader ’n that...though at any time, at th’ best o’ times, he was never what you’d call a goin’ concern.’1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 73

Questions about going concerns

What is going concerns the plural of?
Going concerns is the plural of going concern.

Words near going concerns in the dictionary

  1. going cahoots
  2. going chapter 11
  3. going cheap
  4. going commando
  5. going concern
  6. going concerns
  7. going country
  8. going crazy
  9. going cunch
  10. going dark
  11. going deep

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