Bankrupt

Definition: Bankrupt

Bankrupt

Adjective

1. Financially ruined; "a bankrupt company".

Noun

1. Someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts.

Verb

1. Reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!".

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Date "bankrupt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Law

Literature

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Synonyms: Bankrupt

Failure

Victim; bankrupt; flunker, flunky.

Lost, undone, ruined, broken; bankrupt; (not paying); played out; done up, done for; dead beat, ruined root and branch, flambe, knocked on the head; destroyed.

Nonpayment

Verb: not pay; fail, break, stop payment; become insolvent, become bankrupt; be gazetted.

Insolvent, bankrupt, in the gazette, gazetted.

Bankrupt, insolvent, debtor, lame duck, man of straw, welsher, stag, defaulter, levanter.

Crosswords: Bankrupt

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect (The Phantom Tollbooth; writing credit: Chuck Jones; Norton Juster)

You want to bankrupt somebody (Ally McBeal; writing credit: Henri Vernes)

The Hyatt went bankrupt and was put up for sale, Waterstreet Pavillion saw most of its stores go out of business, and only six months after opening, Autoworld closed due to a lack of visitors (Roger & Me; writing credit: Michael Moore)

Ouch! When you get those feelings, insurance companies start to go bankrupt. (Die Hard 2; writing credit: Steven E. de Souza)

The Bankrupt (1972)

A Bankrupt Honeymoon (1926)

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Books

• A New Democracy: Alternatives to a Bankrupt World Order (Global Issues Series) (reference)

• Basic Bankrupt Law for Paralegals (reference)

• How to Get Rich Buying Bankrupt Companies (reference)

• Riding the Tiger: How to Outsmart the Computer That Is After Your Job. How Not to Bankrupt Your Organization With Information Management. How Good cl (reference)

• Running on Empty: Bush, Congress, and the Politics of a Bankrupt Government (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Bankrupt [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Shylock's year, or 1840 with no bankrupt law. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bankrupt!. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1912)

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The year 1830 had become bankrupt with the people

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Business

Five major steel manufacturers went bankrupt in the last two years. (references)

Nearly 10 small to medium sized, district level bankrupt hospitals in Beijing have already been closed. (references)

The five bankrupt companies are Hanbo Steel, Sammi Steel, Kia Steel, Hwan-Young Steel, and Shinho Steel. (references)

Civil Liberties

Azerbaijan

Harassment of journalists, closures of newspapers and libel suits (which would bankrupt immediately any independent or opposition newspaper if upheld), created an atmosphere in which editors and journalists exercised self-censorship. (references)

Economic History

Georgia

These benefits are negligible, however, and the system is bankrupt. (references)

Panama

Several small retailers and two large firms have gone bankrupt in recent months. (references)

Political Economy

Lesotho

Thousands of jobs were lost, and many entrepreneurs went bankrupt. (references)

CANADA

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, a number of companies are expected to go bankrupt and assets will be sold off. (references)

Singapore

J.B. Jeyaretnam, a nonelected opposition member of Parliament, lost his seat in July when declared bankrupt due to his inability to pay defamation damages awarded to ruling party members in previous years. (references)

Political Rights

Singapore

In July J.B. Jeyaretnam, an opposition nonelected M.P. from the WP lost an appeal in a defamation suit and was declared bankrupt for failure to pay the damages awarded against him in previous years. (references)

Singapore

It intimidates the members of the opposition through the threat of libel suits and the subsequent loss of their political future, since large judgments in libel suits can lead to bankruptcy, and under the law bankrupt persons are ineligible to sit in Parliament. (references)

Trade

Bulgaria

At the same time, this option protects the exporter if the buyer goes bankrupt or cannot pay. (references)

Worker Rights

United Arab Emirates

In March the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor issued an order granting workers sponsored by closed or bankrupt companies a 6 month grace period in which to transfer their sponsorship to another company. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "bankrupt": adjudicate smb. bankrupt ♦ bankrupt in ♦ bankrupt in intelligance ♦ Bankrupt law ♦ bankrupt smb. ♦ become bankrupt ♦ certificated bankrupt ♦ declare oneself a bankrupt ♦ go bankrupt ♦ mental bankrupt ♦ to go bankrupt. Additional references.

Ending with "bankrupt": near-bankrupt.

Afrikaans

bankrot (bankruptcy, failure). (various references)

Albanian

njeri i falimentuar (insolvent), i falimentuar (dilapidated, flat tire), falimentoj (fail), faliment. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفلس (broke, bust, busty, down at heel, hard up, impecunious, insolvent, kaput, penniless, punk, ruined, unowned), ‏المفلس (insolvent), ‏أعلن افلاسه (go bust). (various references)

Bulgarian 

фалирал длъжник, фалирал (bust, insolvent, lame duck, on the rocks, played out, washed up). (various references)

Chinese 

� �产 (Bankruptcies, Bankruptcy, insolvent), �' (inverted, to change, to collapse, to fail, to fall, to go home, to pour, to the contrary, to tip, to topple, turn over, upset). (various references)

Czech

zkrachovaný (bust), konkursní dlužník, insolventní (insolvent). (various references)

Danish

fallent. (various references)

Dutch

bankroet (bankruptcy, failure). (various references)

Esperanto

bankrotulo, bankrotinto, bankrota. (various references)

Farsi 

ورشکسته (Broke), ورشکست کردن وشدن . (various references)

Finnish

vararikkoinen (insolvent), konkurssivelallinen. (various references)

French

failli. (various references)

Frisian

bankerot (bankruptcy, failure), fallyt. (various references)

German

bankrott (bankruptcy, bankruptly, breakdown, broke, collapse, debased, discredited, smashup). (various references)

Greek 

πτωχός, πτωχεύσας, χρεωκοπώ (fail, go bankrupt), χρεωκοπημένοσ, χρεωκοπημένος (insolvent), χρεοκοπημένος (in debt). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפשוט את �"ר�'ל (fail, go bankrupt, go broke, go into liquidation), פושט ר�'ל (insolvent). (various references)

Hungarian

vagyonbukott, csődbe jutott. (various references)

Indonesian

bangkrut (insolvent), orang yang bangkrut. (various references)

Italian

bancarotta (bankruptcy), fallito (abortive, bankrupted, broke, failure, unpromising, unpromisingly, unsuccessful), fallimento (abortion, bankruptcy, bust, crackup, defeat, failing, failure, fiasco, miscarriage, smashup, washout). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

身代限り (going bankrupt), � �綻�'来す (to be ruined, to fail, to go bankrupt), � ��"�者 (a bankrupt or insolvent person), 潰れる (to be smashed, to go bankrupt), �'れる (to be ruined, to break down, to collapse, to die, to drop, to fall, to fall senseless, to go bankrupt, to have a bad debt, to succumb to). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たおれる (to be ruined, to break down, to collapse, to die, to drop, to fall, to fall senseless, to go bankrupt, to have a bad debt, to succumb to), し�"� いかぎり (going bankrupt), つぶれる (to be smashed, to go bankrupt), はた�"�'きたす (to be ruined, to fail, to go bankrupt), はさ�"しゃ (a bankrupt or insolvent person). (various references)

Korean 

파산하�". (various references)

Manx

fer brisht, brishtagh (brittle), brisht (breached, broke, bust, cracked, deposed, deprived, discontinuous, fragmentary, insolvent, ruined, ruptured, shipwrecked, smashed, stony-broke, wrecked), brishey (bankruptcy, break, breakage, burst, cash, cashier, change money, contravention, crash, decode, depose, disbar, dismiss, dismissal, failure, fracture, go back, infringement, interrupt, interruption, pick, raise, repulse, ruin, small change, stump, violation, wane). (various references)

Papiamen

bankrut, fayit (bankruptcy, failure). (various references)

Pig Latin

ankruptbay.(various references)

Portuguese

falido (insolvent). (various references)

Romanian

ruina (blast, blight, crock, destroy, dilapidate, impair, Mar, overturn, ravage, ruin, sink, undo), insolvabil (insolvent, non-solvent), falit (insolvent, lame duck), falimentar, duce la faliment. (various references)

Russian 

несостоятельный (insolvent, untenable), банкрот несостоятельный, банкрот (defaulter, insolvent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bankrotiran (stony broke). (various references)

Spanish

bancarrota, quiebra economica, quebrado (broken, broken through, cracked, fractionally, fractured, heartbroken, insolvent, lost, rough, uneven), insolvente (insolvent), hacer quebrar (break, leak, tear), falto de (barren of), falencia (bankruptcy, smashup), desfondado, arruinar (bane, beggar, blast, blight, break, dilapidate, leak, mess up, murder, ruin, scuttle, tear, throw over, wash out, wreck), arruinado (broken, bust, desolate, dilapidated, dilapidates, ruined, scuttles). (various references)

Swedish

konkursgäldenär, bankrutt (bankruptcy, failure, kaput, ruined). (various references)

Turkish

batmış (demersal, immersed, insolvent, ruined, sinked, steeped in), batırmak (break, bring to ruin, dip, immerse, jab, plunge, prickle, ruin, sink, stick, submerge, swamp), yoksun kimse, mahvolmuş (all up, banged up, damaged, gone, kaput, lost, perished, ruined, undone, up the spout, washed up, wrecked), mahvetmek (bang up, barbarize, be ruin of smb., beat smb. hollow, bring to ruin, bugger, bugger up, canker, cook, corrupt, cut up, damn, destroy, devastate, dish, do for, exterminate, finish, kill, knock into a cocked hat, lay in ruins, lay low, make havoc of, play havoc with, pulverize, queer, ruin, sink, skunk, slaughter, smash, smash up, split, take smb. to the cleaners, undo, wallop, work havoc, wreck), iflas ettirmek (bust, ruin), iflas etmiş kimse (insolvent), iflas etmiş (broke, insolvent), çökertmek (cause to collapse, crumple, indent, overthrow). (various references)

Turkmen 

tozmak (be bankrupt, wear out). (various references)

Ukrainian

розорити (bust), неспроможний боржник, неспроможний (invalid, untenable), неплатоспроможний (insolvent), збанкрутілий (bust, failed), банкрут (defaulter), довести до банкрутства. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vỡ nợ (bust), phá sản thiếu, người vỡ nợ (defaulter), mất hết, không có (destitute, devoid, inexistent, non-existent, short, unprovided). (various references)

Welsh

methdalwr. (various references)

decoctor. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bankrupt": bankruptcies, bankruptcy, bankrupted, bankrupting, bankrupts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bankrupt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bamkrupt, bancrupt, bankcrupt, bankrot, bankrupty, bonkrupt, Bozkurt. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: abrupt, turban.

-3 letters: brank, brant, brunt, buran, burnt, kaput, knaur, kraut, kurta, prank, pruta, punka, tabun, trank, trunk, unapt, unbar, urban.

-4 letters: abut, aunt, bank, bark, barn, bran, brat, brut, bunk, bunt, bura, burn, burp, karn, kart, kbar, knap, knar, knur, kuna, nark, pant, park, part, prat, prau, puna, punk, punt, rank, rant.

+1 letter: bankrupts.

+2 letters: bankruptcy, bankrupted.

+3 letters: bankrupting.

+4 letters: bankruptcies.