Usually means: Firms whose collapse threatens economy.
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We found 8 dictionaries that define the word too big to fail:

General (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. too big to fail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. too big to fail: Wiktionary
  3. Too Big To Fail, Too Big to Fail (book), Too Big to Fail (film), Too-big-to-fail, Too big to fail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. too-big-to-fail: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  2. Terms related to the Federal Reserve, banking and economics (No longer online)
  3. Too Big To Fail: Investopedia
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Too Big to Fail: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (too big to fail)

adjective:  (finance, economics, politics) Deemed too important to the economy or polity to be allowed to “fail”, that is to be liquidated or to go bankrupt.

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