bankrupt
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4.2
- adjective
- /ˈbæŋkrʌpt/
- After investing in a risky venture, the once-thriving business was declared bankrupt and closed its doors.
- go bankrupt
- declared bankrupt
- bankrupt firms
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Watch on YouTubeMedical debt is responsible for more people being financially bankrupt than just about anything else at this point.
- Medical debt is responsible for more people being financially bankrupt than just about anything else at this point.
- And you'd even sometimes I remember having details of Mary J Blige, this whole singer, she was bankrupt.
- Well, let's talk about this because some are now saying because of this, the FED's bankrupt and quite frankly, it's renewing calls to end the Fed.
- How is something that's supposed to be decentralized going to survive if that one person turns out to be shady, a scam, or also bankrupt?
Examples
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Most of the ranchers went bankrupt, and they set thousands of birds free.
Fiction book (2000) -
By 1988, the economy was as bankrupt and exhausted as the theory of reform economics.
Academic text (1991) -
Besides, did you go bankrupt or something?
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Her father explained that Ed had owned a company in Chicago that went bankrupt three years before.
Fiction book (1991) -
I'll be bankrupt in a week.
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Medical debt is responsible for more people being financially bankrupt than just about anything else at this point.
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Hotels were empty, firms were going bankrupt, and tourists were absent.
Academic text (2000) -
The estate was bankrupt.
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I'm bankrupt.
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The millennials are bankrupt with student loan debt, and they keep printing more money, raising taxes, which makes it almost impossible for you guys to get ahead.
Synonyms
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1.8
Having no money
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4.3
Having no money
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5.4
Having no money to spend
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7.7
Unable to pay debts because they have too little money or assets
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7.1
A company or shop that is not operating because it has no money
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7.1
A person who has lost all their money and savings
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Etymology
Bankrupt comes from old words bank 'bench' and rupt 'broken', which gives the image of being 'financially broken'. That's why when someone is bankrupt they are 'unable to pay' their debts.