surviving

surviving
survive sur‧vive [səˈvaɪv ǁ sər-] verb [intransitive, transitive]
1. if a business survives, it manages to continue operating, even though it is in a very difficult situation:

• To survive, companies will have to focus on staff development.

• The retailing company is cutting the number of its stores in an effort to survive its severe recessionary problems.

2. if you survive, you continue to live. If you survive someone, you continue to live after they have died:

• Provided her husband survived her by 30 days, he would receive the income from her father's estate.

— surviving adjective [only before a noun] :

• The merger will cost the surviving company $136 million from tax effects.

• He leaves no surviving children.


Financial and business terms. 2012.

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