going concern
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.64 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "‘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.’"