The phrase "ailing enterprises" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe businesses or organizations that are struggling or experiencing difficulties, often in a financial or operational context.
Example: "The government has introduced new policies to support ailing enterprises in the manufacturing sector."
Alternatives: "struggling businesses" or "troubled companies."
The use of taxpayers' money to support ailing enterprises is becoming a contentious political issue in Washington.
Workers were kept in employment by the liberal credit policy of the central bank, which provided huge subsidies to ailing enterprises.
A wise government would draw up careful public- investment plans to ensure the money was not spent all at once, and avoid wasting it on propping up ailing enterprises.
The ratio of non-performing loans at north-eastern bank branches is the highest in the country, which is itself so overwhelmed with bad debts that the big state-owned banks need regular injections of capital in order to avoid insolvency.Another danger is that government aid will do less to revive the fortunes of ailing enterprises than to line the pockets of local officials.
He located a couple of ailing enterprises in Denver: a maker of the slotted-steel strips used by do-it-yourselfers to hang garage door openers, shelves and the like and its sole client, a distributor.
He seems energetic and capable, his experience in business no longer a liability – evoking questions about the vulture-like conduct of his private equity company, Bain Capital, along with his record of outsourcing American jobs – but an asset, a qualification for turning around the ailing enterprise that is USA, Inc. Monday's performance completed that new picture.
The banks (themselves state-owned, for the most part) still dole out almost half their loans to ailing public enterprises.
Here in this city of ailing state enterprises, protests by workers demanding unpaid wages are so common that road blockages are announced on the morning news.
China's leaders also hope to spur ailing state enterprises -- one third of them are losing money -- and preserve the household responsibility system that allows individual farming.
The head of China's central bank today described renewed efforts to turn China's giant state banks and ailing state enterprises into sound commercial operations, able to withstand the competitive pressures that are certain to follow China's entry into the World Trade Organization.
Mr Zhu came in fighting, pledging to slash bureaucracy, turn around the fortunes of ailing state-owned enterprises within three years and allow the state-owned commercial banks to operate independently.But although Mr Zhu has made progress in some of these areas, the job is far from finished.
