go bust

idiom

informal

: to spend or lose all of one's money : to go broke

The company has gone bust.

Examples of go bust in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The tokens that crypto-earning games dole out are more volatile than Bitcoin and Ether, meaning the boom could go bust again. —Eli Tan Jes Aznar, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024

Forbes senior contributor Peter Cohan sees many reasons why its stock could quickly go bust. —Cio, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024

If insolvencies continue at their current pace in higher-risk sectors such as construction, real estate, hospitality and retail, which are dependent on discretionary spending or are labor-intensive, Allianz Trade predicts more than 7,000 firms will go bust in the UK in 2024. —Bloomberg, Fortune Europe, 28 Feb. 2024

More startups will go bust, and venture capital funds will continue to post negative returns. —Edward Chancellor, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2024

Trump’s case Trump’s case involved 11 years of financial statements with values based on disputed and sometimes outright false descriptions of properties used as collateral should his loans go bust. —Bernard Condon, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024

Even worse, what if the companies behind them go bust? —Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2022

Don’t Drop Everything To Specialize Technology trends come and go—blockchain, Web3, virtual reality, AI, the Internet of Things, quantum and edge computing—some will prevail, some will go bust and some are still awaiting their time. —Expert Panel®, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023

Until the booms go bust and the environmental bill comes due, hiring and pay often soar as the gas industry expands. —Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 26 May 2023