Bankrupt

/ˈbæŋk.ɹəpt/ · adjective

Meaning

(finance, of a person, company, etc.) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent..

Definitions by Sense

1. (finance, of a person, company, etc.) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent.
2. (figurative) Destitute of, or wholly lacking a good quality, value, etc. one should possess or once possessed.
3. (transitive) To force into bankruptcy.
4. (card games) to get placed last in Tycoon with the bankruptcy rule
5. One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person; a bankruptee.
6. (UK, law, obsolete) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.

Example Sentences

a bankrupt merchant

"How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly."

a morally bankrupt politician

a creatively bankrupt endeavor

O Julia! I am bankrupt in gratitude! but the time is ſo preſſing, it calls on you for ſo haſty a reſolution.

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.

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• more bankrupt
• most bankrupt
• bankrupts
• bankrupting
• bankrupted

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