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bankrupt
/ˈbæŋkɹəpt/
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What does bankrupt mean?
adjective
- In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent.
- (figuratively) Destitute of, or wholly lacking a good quality, value, etc. one should possess or once possessed.
verb
- To force into bankruptcy.
More meanings (3)
verb
- to get placed last in Tycoon with the bankruptcy rule
noun
- One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person; a bankruptee.
- (obsolete) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbæŋkɹəpt/
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The bill is protested, and returns upon the drawer, who, if he does not immediately pay it, becomes likewise a bankrupt.
The concern was almost bankrupt, and to save it from utter ruin Barnum advanced large sums of money from his own purse.
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Thousands of pounds had been wasted on it, many had gone bankrupt over it, and others it had provided with safe fat jobs.
This anarchy and indiscipline naturally cost enormous sums of money, and a private firm which operated in this manner would soon find itself bankrupt.
It is then without wonder that we find him after this temporarily bankrupt, and resorting to his skill in instrument-making to recover his fortunes.