failing business

collocation in English

meaningsoffailingandbusiness

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failing
adjective
uk
/ˈfeɪ.lɪŋ/us
/ˈfeɪ.lɪŋ/
becoming weaker or ...
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business
noun
uk
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/us
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/
the activity of buying and selling goods ...
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(Definition offailingandbusinessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffailing business

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There is also the case of the ailing orfailingbusiness.
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Only seven years ago, the current owner won the national small business award for turning afailingbusinessaround.
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It is failing young people,failingbusinessand failing the taxpayer.
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That, unfortunately, is because of thefailingbusinessperformance of the railways, partly brought about by the recession.
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He had been acting as a money scrivener, investing clients money in worthless schemes, or using the money to bolster hisfailingbusiness.
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Along with the other employees he was dismissed when the factory mysteriously burnt down after the owner had unsuccessfully tried to sell thefailingbusiness.
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Here they must turn thefailingbusinessaround and cure patients.
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He was ultimately obliged to close hisfailingbusinessand go into early retirement in 1991.
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He keeps venturing intofailingbusinessventures and uses his brothers-in-law as his financiers.
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His family owns a small butfailingbusiness, which he hopes to take over and rebuild.
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Clive soon agrees to join the undertakers to help revive theirfailingbusiness.
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Much strong academic, legislative and judicial opinion was opposed to the notion that businessmen could escape accountability for their role in the failing businesses.
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He earned his reputation by recreating failing businesses.
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His business reputation flourished after a string of successes in rescuing failing businesses.
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Humpty had been investing in their failing businesses in hope of a breakthrough, which never came.
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