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Bankrupt
Definitions
- 1 In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent. usually
"a bankrupt merchant"
- 2 Destitute of, or wholly lacking a good quality, value, etc. one should possess or once possessed. figuratively
"a morally bankrupt politician"
- 1 financially ruined wordnet
- 1 One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person; a bankruptee.
- 2 someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts wordnet
- 3 A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. UK, obsolete
- 1 To force into bankruptcy. transitive
"The cost of the Mendip line had, however, bankrupted the S.D.R. [Somerset & Dorset Railway], and it was leased to the two larger companies for 999 years in 1875, and named the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway."
- 2 reduce to bankruptcy wordnet
- 3 to get placed last in Tycoon with the bankruptcy rule
Etymology
Partial calque of Italian bancarotta (literally “a broken bench”), from banca (“bank”, literally “bench”) + rotta (“broken, rupted”), which refers to an out-of-business bank, having its bench physically broken, signifying that the working moneylender was insolvent.
Partial calque of Italian bancarotta (literally “a broken bench”), from banca (“bank”, literally “bench”) + rotta (“broken, rupted”), which refers to an out-of-business bank, having its bench physically broken, signifying that the working moneylender was insolvent.
Partial calque of Italian bancarotta (literally “a broken bench”), from banca (“bank”, literally “bench”) + rotta (“broken, rupted”), which refers to an out-of-business bank, having its bench physically broken, signifying that the working moneylender was insolvent.
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