C1idiombusinessIELTS-friendly
go public
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for a company to start selling its shares on the stock market
It also means making secret information known: 'she went public with her story'. The business sense is the one taught here.
In context
The delivery start-up plans to go public in Singapore next year.
When the company went public, early employees became millionaires overnight.
More idioms about business
- a ballpark figurea rough number that is close to the real amount
- a big playera powerful and important person or company in a field
- a bottlenecka point where progress slows because too much has to pass through it
- a deal breakera fact or condition that makes you refuse to accept an agreement
- a dog-eat-dog worlda situation where people compete hard and will harm others to succeed