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bank·rupt·cy
(băngk′rəpt-sē, -rəp-sē)n.
1. The state of being bankrupt.
2. A legal proceeding that allows for a person or entity to be declared bankrupt.
3. The system of adjudication that declares instances of bankruptcy: went into bankruptcy.
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bankruptcy
(ˈbæŋkrʌptsɪ; -rəptsɪ)n, pl -cies
the state, condition, or quality of being or becoming bankrupt
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bank•rupt•cy
(ˈbæŋk rʌpt si, -rəp si)n., pl. -cies.
1. the state of being bankrupt.
2. utter ruin or failure.
[1690–1700]
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Noun | 1. | bankruptcy - a state of complete lack of some abstract property; "spiritual bankruptcy"; "moral bankruptcy"; "intellectual bankruptcy" failure - lack of success; "he felt that his entire life had been a failure"; "that year there was a crop failure" |
2. | bankruptcy - inability to discharge all your debts as they come due; "the company had to declare bankruptcy"; "fraudulent loans led to the failure of many banks" insolvency - the lack of financial resources | |
3. | bankruptcy - a legal process intended to insure equality among the creditors of a corporation declared to be insolvent legal proceeding, proceeding, proceedings - (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
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bankruptcy
noun
1. insolvency, failure, crash, disaster, ruin, liquidation, indebtedness Many established firms were facing bankruptcy.
2. emptiness, want, vacuum, deficiency, void, shortcoming, deprivation, dearth, destitution, vacuity The massacre laid bare the moral bankruptcy of the regime.
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bankruptcy
nounThe condition of being financially insolvent:
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Translations
إِفْلاس
bankrotúpadek
fallitkonkursbankerot
konkurssivararikko
csõd
gjaldòrot
surseance van betaling
bankrot
bankrot
konkurs
iflâs
bankruptcy
[ˈbæŋkrəptsɪ]A. N
1. (Jur) → quiebra f
B. CPD bankruptcy court N (Brit) → tribunal m de quiebras
bankruptcy proceedings NPL → juicio m de insolvencia
bankruptcy proceedings NPL → juicio m de insolvencia
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
bankruptcy
[ˈbænkrʌptsi ˈbæŋkrəptsi] nCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
bankruptcy
n
(Jur) → Bankrott m, → Konkurs m; (instance) → Konkurs m; the possibility of bankruptcy → die Möglichkeit eines or des Bankrotts or Konkurses
(fig) → Bankrott m
bankruptcy
:Bankruptcy Court
n → Konkursgericht nt
bankruptcy proceedings
pl → Konkursverfahren nt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
bankrupt
(ˈbӕŋkrapt) adjective unable to pay one's debts. He has been declared bankrupt.
noun a person who is unable to pay his debts.
verb to make bankrupt. His wife's extravagance soon bankrupted him.
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