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failed business vs business failed

Both "failed business" and "business failed" are correct, but they are used in different contexts. "Failed business" is a noun phrase where "failed" describes the type of business, while "business failed" is a sentence where the business is the subject and "failed" is the verb.

Last updated: March 26, 2024 • 794 views

failed business

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to describe a business that has not been successful or has gone bankrupt.

Examples:

The failed business left many employees without jobs.
He invested all his savings in a failed business.
The failed business was a result of poor management.
The failed business was a setback for the entrepreneur.
The failed business was a hard lesson for the young entrepreneur.

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Great, just what l need on my conscience: another failed business.
The government should not prop up a failed business.
We have survived five kids, a failed business, cancer.
Just one more failed business venture on the scrap heap of Christopher Herrmann, incorporated.
Your failed business, all those debts.
Since then it looks like he's lurched from one failed business to the next.
Does the Commission believe that the abovementioned measures are sufficient to counterbalance public aversion towards insolvent companies (as stated above, 47 % of Europeans would still be reluctant to place an order with a previously failed business)?

Alternatives:

unsuccessful business
bankrupt business
business that failed
business that was unsuccessful
business that went bankrupt

business failed

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used in a sentence where the business is the subject and "failed" is the verb, indicating that the business was not successful.

Examples:

The business failed due to poor marketing strategies.
The restaurant business failed after only a few months.
The online business failed to attract enough customers.
The family business failed to adapt to the changing market.
The small business failed to survive the economic downturn.

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Sorry that you think you know how to do business, and maybe that's why our first business failed.
When the business failed, we lost everything.
You wouldn't believe this, but that business failed.
His business failed and all he saw before him was more failure, so he took a decision.
But his business failed, and his life fell apart.
If your business failed those who bought it aren't responsible.
His gold mine business failed, and ended up selling his two daughters.
Sorry that you took two weed breaks every single day instead of making work calls, and maybe that's why our business failed.
When the business failed, I told him if we didn't go home, I'd go alone.

Alternatives:

the business was unsuccessful
the business went bankrupt
the business did not succeed
the business was a failure
the business was not profitable

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