bankrupt

bank·rupt  (bngkrpt, -rpt)

n.

1. Law A debtor that, upon voluntary petition or one invoked by the debtor's creditors, is judged legally insolvent. The debtor's remaining property is then administered for the creditors or is distributed among them.

2. A person who is totally lacking in a specified resource or quality: an intellectual bankrupt.

adj.

1.

a. Having been legally declared financially insolvent.

b. Financially ruined; impoverished.

2.

a. Depleted of valuable qualities or characteristics: a morally and ethically bankrupt politician.

b. Totally depleted; destitute: was bankrupt of new ideas.

c. Being in a ruined state: a bankrupt foreign policy.

tr.v. bank·rupt·ed, bank·rupt·ing, bank·rupts

1. To cause to become financially bankrupt.

2. To ruin: an administration that bankrupted its credibility by seeking to manipulate the news.

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[French banqueroute, from Italian banca rotta, broken counter (from the practice of breaking the counters of bankrupt bankers) : banca, moneychanger's table; see banco + rotta, past participle of rompere, to break (from Latin rumpere; see reup- in Indo-European roots).]

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bankrupt·cy (-rpt-s, -rp-s) n.

bank·ruptive adj.

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bankrupt

Noun

1. a person, declared by a court to be unable to pay his or her debts, whose property is sold and the proceeds distributed among the creditors

2. a person no longer having a particular quality: a spiritual bankrupt

Adjective

1. declared insolvent

2. financially ruined

3. no longer having a particular quality: morally bankrupt

Verb

to make bankrupt [Old Italian banca bank¹ + rotta broken]

bankruptcy n

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	bankrupt - someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts insolvent nonstarter, unsuccessful person, loser, failure - a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
Verb	1.	bankrupt - reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him" ruin, smash, break impoverish - make poor
Adj.	1.	bankrupt - financially ruined; "a bankrupt company"; "the company went belly-up" belly-up insolvent - unable to meet or discharge financial obligations; "an insolvent person"; "an insolvent estate"

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bankrupt

adjective insolvent, broke (informal) spent, ruined, wiped out (informal) impoverished, beggared, in the red, on the rocks, destitute, gone bust (informal) in receivership, gone to the wall, in the hands of the receivers, on your uppers, in queer street << OPPOSITE solvent

Translations

bankrupt [ˈbæŋkrʌpt] n → quebrado/a

adj → quebrado, insolvente;

to go bankrupt → quebrar, hacer bancarrota;

to be bankrupt → estar en quiebra

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bankrupt [ˈbæŋkrʌpt] n → failli(e)

adj → en faillite;

to go bankrupt → faire faillite

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bankrupt [ˈbæŋkrʌpt] adj → bankrott

n → Bankrotteur(in) m(f);

to go bankrupt → Bankrott machen

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bankrupt [ˈbæŋkrʌpt] adj, n → fallito/a;

to go bankrupt → fallire