go bust

English

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.

   • 2025 January 8, Philip Haigh, “Will all of the UK train assembly lines survive?”, in RAIL, number 1026, page 50:

     Steam gave a last hurrah for some, but North British went bust in 1962, unable to make the transition to modern traction.

Synonyms

• go bankrupt
• go under
• go belly-up

Translations

go bust — see go bankrupt