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receivership

receivership

5 8.1
A court puts a person in charge of a company or its assets when it has money problems
  • noun
  • /rɪˈsiːvərʃɪp/
  • Formal
translation icon : administración judicial
  • Matchbox was in receivership in the UK and had failed.
  • court receivership

And that led them to fall into FDIC receivership on Sunday.

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Examples

  • Washington Mutual receivership gets bought by Chase, Countrywide, Merrill Lynch, both purchased by Bank of America, Wachovia bought by Wells Fargo.

  • The dubious distinction, many believe, goes to the District of Columbia, whose system has been in court receivership since 1995.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Ted has a business in receivership.

  • Insurance Corp. of America was placed in receivership in March 1997.

    Academic text (1998)
  • And that led them to fall into FDIC receivership on Sunday.

  • Well, father died recently, and the house and grounds had to go into receivership because we couldn't pay the death duties.

  • Kia's creditors filed for court receivership.

  • Midopa will file for composition tomorrow, but if the creditors reject, they will be forced to go into receivership.

  • The receivership lasted until 1990, but the State of Michigan continued to oversee Ecorse's finances for another ten years thereafter.

    Academic text (2017)
  • The company was placed in receivership due to its mounting financial debts.

How Final

dissolution
  • Formal
20 6.8
liquidation
  • Specialized
15 7.3
receivership
  • Formal
5 8.1
restructuring
54 4.2

Surface Forms

receivership singular
receiverships plural

Morphology

receivership = receiver (semi-transparent) = receive + er + ship

Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ship' to 'receiver'; components are clear but the specific legal meaning is specialized.

Etymology

Receivership comes from receive, an old word meaning 'to take' or 'to get', with the ending -ship meaning 'a state' or 'situation'. So, receivership is the situation when a receiver is given control to take and manage a company's assets.