to fold up

Examples

• All

• Because if you, you bastard, lost all discipline and folded up... ...and turned drunk and got bald and lost everything, I'd love you.

  We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)

• What do you want to do, Bill - fold up and close the store?

  Fiction book (1991)

• If they can't do the above, they either have to cut hours, cut the number of employees, or fold up the business - in which case everyone will be out of a job.

  Blog text (11)

• Not even a DWI?" he asked as he folded up his money and she put the little bag of coke into her purse.

  Fiction book (1997)

• I said: "Personally, I think MS ought to fold up tent and plow NTFS into a Linux distro, sell it for $49, and you would be back in the race."

  Blog text (15)

• Who cares if you destroy the local economy by making local merchants subsidize their own destruction at the hands of Target? Why don't they just fold up their struggling little no-count stores and get a job for $9 an hour at Target or Panera Bread?

  Blog text (15)

• After struggling for months, the small bakery finally had to fold up and close its doors for good.

• The once-popular bookstore decided to fold up after failing to compete with online retailers.

• With declining sales and increasing debts, the company had no choice but to fold up and go out of business.

Synonyms

C

to close down

vsto fold up

94 2.9

To stop operating permanently, like a shop or company

is an informal way to describe permanent business end

F

to fold

vsto fold up

81 5.3

Close a business because it cannot pay its costs

covers permanent business ending regardless of the cause

D

to dissolve

vsto fold up

• Formal

60 4.1

To officially end an organization, agreement, or relationship

is a casual phrase used for permanent business failure rather than legal ending

C

to close up

vsto fold up

44 3.5

To stop a shop or business from operating

is more focused on permanent cessation of business activity

C

to close its doors

vsto fold up

17 4.0

To permanently stop operating as a business or organization

is a more informal expression for the same permanent ending

C

to close up shop

vsto fold up

11 3.9

To stop doing business for a short time or forever

is typically used to mean a permanent end rather than temporary closing

S

to shut up shop

vsto fold up

• UK

1 4.7

Close a shop for the day or forever

is often used to talk about permanent end in informal speech

Antonyms

O

to open

∞ 1.0

To begin an event or activity

L

to launch

504 3.7

To start something new with energy, often in public

How Operational

to cut back

169 2.9

to scale down

8 4.0

to close up shop

11 3.9

to fold up

1 4.4

to close down

94 2.9

to go bankrupt

73 3.5

Surface Forms

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Etymology