survivesur·vive /səˈvaɪvsər-/ verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT]1if a business survives, it manages to continue operating, even though it is in a very difficult situationTo survive, companies will have to focus on staff development.
The retailing company is cutting the number of its stores in an effort tosurvive its severe recessionaryproblems.
2if you survive, you continue to live. If you survive someone, you continue to live after they have diedProvided her husband survived her by 30 days, he would receive the income from her father’s estate.
—surviving adjectiveadj [only before a noun]The merger will cost the surviving company $136 million from tax effects.
He leaves nosurviving children.