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Meaning bankrupt meaning

What does bankrupt mean?
Definitions in simple English

bankrupt Adjective

— If you are bankrupt you have declared bankruptcy (protection by law from debt you cannot pay). I don't have to pay now because I am bankrupt. — If you are bankrupt you have no money. I have been bankrupt all summer. — If you are bankrupt of something, you do not have that thing. For example, someone who is "morally bankrupt" has no morals. We can't survive if our country becomes morally bankrupt.

bankrupt

— verb (= break, smash) reduce to bankruptcy My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me! The slump in the financial markets smashed him — adjective (= belly-up) financially ruined a bankrupt company the company went belly-up — noun someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts

Synonyms bankrupt synonyms

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bankrupt English » English

insolvent broke belly-up ruin break smash ruined pauperize destitute defaulter bust broken tumble down topple over penniless not wealthy needy lie down insolvency improverish impoverish hard up go wrong go broke go bankrupt fall over failing fail disaster deplete declare bankrupt calamity brokee beggar become poor bankruptcy bankrupt person

Topics bankrupt topics

What do people use bankrupt to talk about?
Work and occupation Finance Have wealth

Poor
Work and occupation Finance Accumulate wealth

Lose wealth

Conjugation bankrupt conjugation

How do you conjugate bankrupt?

bankrupt · verb

Examples bankrupt examples

How do I use bankrupt in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The company went bankrupt.
If this organization is left as it is, it will soon go bankrupt; its recovery is as difficult as swapping horses while crossing a stream.
That company went bankrupt.
Many small companies went bankrupt.
His company went bankrupt, and to make matters worse, he met with a traffic accident.
He is bankrupt.
He went bankrupt.
He's gone bankrupt due to gambling debts.
He was declared bankrupt.
Tom declared himself bankrupt.
Greece is bankrupt.
The company will soon go bankrupt.
The nation's finances are bankrupt because of the war.
It is true that he went bankrupt.
The talented finance minister's ingenuity has helped his bankrupt nation to get out of the red.
Tom won the lottery, but went bankrupt a year later.
That store went bankrupt.

Movie subtitles

I will go bankrupt if you do not help me.
The one that went bankrupt?
Unless it's that my father was a bankrupt. Ha!
Ha! Why, if i went bankrupt, it'd upset charlie, i'd never doubt.
You see, my father went bankrupt, and i was in a shop till. oh, i never gave a man away or did anything i was ashamed of, at least, i mean. i had to make my living in all sorts of ways.
If I'm hearing you correctly, you're basically calling me a morally bankrupt, evil being.
The money's gone. The landowner is bankrupt.
Grandfather went completely bankrupt.
Jeff Davis is bankrupt.
He's finished. And I'm bankrupt.
However, a bankrupt Lionel could hardly have continued to support Sibella in her extravagances and I had no wish to do so myself.
I'm bankrupt.
If they want to bankrupt themselves, that's their business, not mine.
If he falls down, I am bankrupt.
A bankrupt coal mine.
How do I know you won't go bankrupt?
Poor boy, he thinks he's wealthy, but, Miss Hammond Daniel Forrester is bankrupt.
It's just as I thought. He's finished. And I'm bankrupt.
He died bankrupt.
Then there's my father, very bankrupt and slightly dishonest.
However, a bankrupt Lionel could hardly have continued to support Sibella in her extravagances and I had no wish to do so myself. Very well.
They will go bankrupt, I'm telling you.
You'll go bankrupt.
Amelie, I don't ask you to like him. but when I was bankrupt in Paris, who paid every cent I owed?
At the end of the year, he'll be bankrupt and blow his brains out.
I tell you, son, if I ran my business back home the way they run this army, I'd be bankrupt in a month.
I think he's going to bankrupt England and America.
We'll be bankrupt!
I didn't go bankrupt on purpose, you know.
Whose store went bankrupt?
When the company was going bankrupt, I saved it.
I'd still be there if he hadn't gone bankrupt.
That poor guy'll go bankrupt going on like that, I tell ya.
And if he's bankrupt, who'll give jobs to the workers?
Devoted to me! - His devotion will have you bankrupt in six months.
That's right, we practically bankrupt our stores to buy everything you've got then you keep us in this hotel room!
They'Il take the students away from me? Of course. You'll go bankrupt.
You can't be saddled with a bankrupt idiot? That's nice for me, isn't it?
In short, we went bankrupt!
Have you gone bankrupt?
A bankrupt drunk and a religious nut with her gigolos.
He wrote dud checks, went bankrupt.

News and current affairs

The opposition inherited a bankrupt country whose institutions are in ruins.
A bankrupt warlord, after all, cannot buy weapons or bribe people to maintain their loyalty.
Yet he left his people in a terrible situation, with no state, in the midst of a losing war, and with a bankrupt economy.
Often, debtor countries are squeezed so hard for payment that they are bankrupt again after a few years.
Larger firms - even those with large debt problems - can refinance their excessive liabilities in court or out of court; but an unprecedented number of small businesses are going bankrupt.
The state would be expected to take over essential public services from bankrupt local governments.
But boosting the share of income that goes to the household sector could be hugely disruptive, as it could bankrupt a large number of SOEs, export-oriented firms, and provincial governments, all of which are politically powerful.
China must exercise the foresight needed to begin paying this debt now, when it is manageable, rather than allowing it to accumulate and, ultimately, threaten to bankrupt us all.
So why do international financial markets rate Venezuela as riskier than all its neighbors, save for bankrupt Argentina?
Part of the reason that many countries turn to the IMF is because governments are bankrupt under the weight of excessive foreign debt.
Yet if the provider of such a service goes bankrupt or runs into difficulties, there is little likelihood that any national government would be called on to bail it out.
In other words, even if you know that the dollar will eventually fall, you could go bankrupt before you can prove your case if everyone else continues betting that it will rise.
In the process, old firms go bankrupt, workers are laid off.
But this eagerness to declare the American model bankrupt is dead wrong.
To acknowledge the truth would have meant admitting that for years they had overlooked the build-up of an unsustainable construction boom that now threatens to bankrupt the entire country.
They knew that if the true conditions at many big banks were publicly revealed, many would have been immediately declared bankrupt, necessitating government receivership to stop a tsunami of bank runs.
In that case, there will also be a serious risk that some firms that sold protection will go bankrupt, triggering further losses for buyers of protection when their counterparties cannot pay.
And in many cases, government agricultural banks went bankrupt.
Today, there is a higher level of bankruptcy in the United States than in the European Union, and it is easier for bankrupt Americans to embark on new ventures.
Borrowing increases risk in any business: you can't go bankrupt if you have no debt.
Entrepreneurs are greedy by definition: if they were not, they would go bankrupt.
The trouble began at the end of the Cold War, when the collapse of a bankrupt communist ideology was complacently interpreted as the triumph of the market.

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