"businesses collapse" is a grammatically correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe the action of multiple businesses failing or going bankrupt. It is often used in an economic or financial context. Example: The recession caused many businesses to collapse, resulting in widespread job loss and economic downturn.
When wars arrive and businesses collapse, the women adapt accordingly, moving away, selling their jewellery.
If rich Chinese saw their businesses collapse or property investments plunge, as some fret could happen if the mainland's economy slows, the 200 or so junkets that operate in Macau could have trouble getting their money back from gamblers.
They make big mistakes, they get pregnant too young, their marriages break up, they let their businesses collapse, they go broke, they invest their money unwisely, they fill their minds and stomachs with junk, they trust the wrong people, they get themselves fired from jobs they can't afford to lose, they make bad decisions for their children.
How does the IMF think people are going to react when, suddenly, the value of their life savings shrivels with no warning, their pay is effectively slashed, the cost of their mortgage skyrockets and their jobs are in jeopardy as businesses collapse because of ballooning interest rates?
I have seen great and thriving businesses collapse soon after the demise of the entrepreneur who founded it.
However, his construction businesses collapsed in 2008.
Unemployment rose sharply, businesses collapsed, and tax revenues declined.
Businesses collapsed and many households lost their savings.
The free market has spoken: their businesses collapsed.
That would have left him even more exposed if any of his borrowers' businesses collapsed.
A.I.G., whose chief business is insuring consumers and businesses, collapsed in 2008 because of reckless speculation by a subsidiary, A.I.G.
