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going concern en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A successfully operating enterprise.
   • At Acromas, the balance sheet is more than £1bn in the red [...] and a pre-tax loss of £300m was recorded in the year to January 2009. But Acromas is still regarded as a viable going concern. 2010 February 22, The Guardian:
   • If the bank does not act swiftly to push the CDS price back down, the regulator seizes the assets, wipes out shareholders and sacks the management. The bank is recapitalised as a going concern and later sold. 2009 May 14, “Dilute or die”, in The Economist:
2. (broadly) A person who is active, thriving, energetic, and highly successful in their endeavors.
   • ‘H’m! he’s dead orright...I never seen anyone look deader ’n that...though at any time, at th’ best o’ times, he was never what you’d call a goin’ concern.’ 1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 73:

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ro firmă activă (working business) · cmn 持續經營 /持续经营 (working business) · es empresa en actividad (working business) · fr continuité d’exploitation (working business) · es empresa en marcha (working business) · fi toimiva yritys (working business) · ro firmă prosperă (working business) · de Fortführungsprinzip (working business) · es empresa en funcionamiento (working business) · es negocio en marcha (working business)