Bankrupt - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈbæŋkrʌpt|  American pronunciation of the word bankrupt
Brit.  |ˈbæŋkrʌpt|  British pronunciation of the word bankrupt

noun

- someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts (syn: insolvent)

verb

- reduce to bankruptcy (syn: break, ruin, smash)

adjective

- financially ruined
a bankrupt company

Extra examples

As a lawyer, she specialized in working with bankrupts.

The lawsuit could leave them bankrupt.

...she's a kind soul, but bankrupt of all common sense, I'm afraid...

Several risky deals bankrupted the company.

...several bad investments bankrupted him...

The firm went bankrupt before the building work was completed.

In 1977 he was declared bankrupt (=by a court).

Mr Trent lost his house when he was made bankrupt.

Seventeen years of war left the country bankrupt.

The opposition attacked the government as morally bankrupt.

Johns had been nearly bankrupted through a failed business venture.

His losses bankrupted the firm.

Their accounts showed lots of paper profits, but they went bankrupt anyway.

One company went bankrupt, and a similar fate befell the other.

Despite heroic efforts to save the business, it ultimately went bankrupt.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: bankrupt
he/she/it: bankrupts
present participle: bankrupting
past tense: bankrupted
past participle: bankrupted
noun
singular: bankrupt
plural: bankrupts
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