takeunder (third-person singular simple presenttakes under,present participletaking under,simple pasttook under,past participletaken under)
- (transitive, of a business) To bring to insolvency; to drive (a business) into financial distress.
2021, Meka James,Heat of Love[1]:I knew she didn’t have to be here, out in the sun with me trying to do whatever I could to keep this fire fromtaking the businessunder, but she was
2015, Carole and David Schwinn,The Transformative Workplace[2]:The costs associated with Patagonia's shift to organic material nearlytook the companyunder, but given the company values, it almost had no choice.
2013, Faiz Siddiqui, “The First Black Students Admitted to 15 Prestigious U.S. Universities, and Their Stories”, inComplex.com[3], archived fromthe original on24 May 2023:It's believed that the Great Depression thentook the businessunder.
