out of business

Idioms  

1. No longer carrying on commercial transactions, as in He's decided to go out of business when he turns sixty-five , or The supermarkets are putting the small grocers out of business .

2. Not in working order, inoperative, as in It looks as though the merry-go-round is out of business tonight . Also see out of commission ; go out , def. 5.

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Example Sentences

Most have been operating for years without incident, but many could now go out of business as they wait for the new normal to emerge.

From Los Angeles Times

Lutnick has negotiated trade agreements and coaxed big investments out of business leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal

There, on the edge of a rundown strip center, the city is leasing space where a previous grocer went out of business.

From The Wall Street Journal

During the dot-com bubble, “the companies that spent the capital were the ones that went out of business,” he said.

From MarketWatch

The famed Pony Express, which rushed the news of Abraham Lincoln’s election to California in November 1860, went out of business less than a year later, after the telegraph made coast-to-coast communications infinitely faster.

From MarketWatch