out of business
No longer operating
Out of business describes a company or enterprise that has ceased operations, usually because it failed financially.
A store that closes permanently has gone out of business.
The phrase extends to anything rendered nonfunctional or eliminated: That last goal put us out of business.
To put someone out of business is to cause their failure through competition or other means.
- closedNot accessible now
- shutteredClosed down permanently
- shut downCease to operate
- liquidatedConverted holdings to currency
- defunctNo longer existing
bankrupt · kaput · boarded · insolvent · nonexistent · dissolved · final sale · for sale sign · job loss · out of work · folded · ceased · padlock · belly up · emotional stress · no more · broke · faded
- liquidationsliquidation, fire sale, closeout, forced sale, bankruptcy sale
- financial ruinbankrupt, bankruptcy, bust, busted, broke
- stoppedstopped, halted, ceased, ended, finished
- business failurebankruptcy court, insolvency, liquidation, closure, shutdown
out of businessin business
Commercially active now
open · operating · in operation · open for business · up and running
out of businessthriving
Succeeding vigorously
flourishing · booming · prospering · profitable · successful
business, outdoor, outcome, output, outage, outlast, businesses, outbid, outperform