uncollectable

Examples

• All

• Nearly $8 million was loaned to band members and then written off as uncollectable.

  Fiction book (2002)

• I realize that the hospitals and clinics can likely write off ever larger amounts as uncollectable, but it's brutal to those who do pay.

  Blog text (27)

• We have found that Canadian loans are virtually uncollectable anyway, so it is a problem.

  Academic text (1999)

• If debt is sold at five cents on the dollar, that means that the seller thinks it is uncollectable.

  Blog text (6)

• The real question is how much the IRS is writing off as uncollectable payments due, including penalties and interest?

  Blog text (5)

• The haves are able to purchase luxury houses off the reserve and have access to tens of millions of dollars in "loans" that are often written off as uncollectable.

  Fiction book (2002)

• On the other hand, Argentina raised a few eyebrows insisting that an utterly uncollectable money judgment was "reparable"—presumably by adding some uncollectable interest.

  Blog text (16)

• On the other hand, Argentina raised a few eyebrows insisting that an utterly uncollectable money judgment was "reparable"—presumably by adding some uncollectable interest.

  Blog text (16)

• After the company's bankruptcy, many debts went unpaid and became uncollectable.

• The lender reported that a significant portion of its investments turned out to be uncollectable due to poor financial management.

Synonyms

U

unobtainable

vsuncollectable

7 6.1

Impossible to get

differs by referring to failing to collect already owed sums

I

irretrievable

vsuncollectable

4 8.5

You cannot get it back or fix it after it is lost

limits this idea to financial sums or debts rather than repairable items

U

unrecoverable

vsuncollectable

2 7.3

Something that cannot be fixed or brought back

is narrower, applying mainly to money or claims rather than objects

U

uncollectible

vsuncollectable

• Specialized

1 7.3

Money that cannot be collected from the person who owes it

is the same meaning but appears as an alternate word form

I

irrecoverable

vsuncollectable

1 8.8

Impossible to get back or fix

focuses specifically on sums or claims that cannot be recovered

U

unretrievable

vsuncollectable

7.9

Impossible to get back

is used more for financial recovery rather than general loss

U

unreclaimable

vsuncollectable

8.1

No one can return land, objects, or memories to a usable state

is about failing to collect money rather than restoring physical things

I

irreclaimable

vsuncollectable

9.9

Not able to be changed for the better

centres on inability to obtain payment rather than moral or physical change

U

unprocurable

vsuncollectable

9.9

Not possible to find or buy

applies instead to failing to recover money or debts owed

Antonyms

C

collectable

• UK

5.1

Able to be recovered by asking the person who owes the money to pay

How Collectable

collectable

• UK

5.1

recoverable

9 4.2

uncollectable

• UK

1 5.3

irrecoverable

1 8.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology