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go bust

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

(intransitive) To become bankrupt.
Several thousand companies go bust in the UK each year.

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We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day. Stuart Rose

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