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動詞

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.

   • 1904, F. D. How, Six Great Schoolmasters, London: Methuen, page 235:

     It is not difficult to believe [...] that if an extra pat of butter were given on any one morning to each of the five hunderd boys the school would (to use their elegant expression) go bust!