bankrupt
AdjektivVerbSubstantivhäufig in Dialogen
- //ˈbæŋk.ɹəpt//
- //ˈbæŋk.ɹʌpt//
- //ˈbeɪ̯ŋk.ɹəpt//
- //ˈbeɪ̯ŋk.ɹʌpt//
In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent.
Adjektiv
- 1
In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent.
a bankrupt merchant
"How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly."
- 2
übertragenDestitute of, or wholly lacking a good quality, value, etc. one should possess or once possessed.
a morally bankrupt politician
a creatively bankrupt endeavor
O Julia! I am bankrupt in gratitude! but the time is ſo preſſing, it calls on you for ſo haſty a reſolution.
Herkunft
Partial calque of Italian bancarotta (literally “a broken bench”), from banca (“bank”, literally “bench”) + rotta (“broken, rupted”), which refers to an out-of-business bank, having its bench physically broken, signifying that the working moneylender was insolvent.
Verb
- 1
To force into bankruptcy.
The cost of the Mendip line had, however, bankrupted the S.D.R. [Somerset & Dorset Railway], and it was leased to the two larger companies for 999 years in 1875, and named the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway.
- 2
to get placed last in Tycoon with the bankruptcy rule
Substantiv
- 1
One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person; a bankruptee.
- 2
veraltetA trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
Formen
- Plural
- bankrupts
- Komparativ
- more bankrupt
- Superlativ
- most bankrupt
- Präteritum
- bankrupted
- Partizip II
- bankrupted
- Partizip I
- bankrupting
- 3. Person Singular
- bankrupts
bankrupt · In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent.
bankruptcy · A legally declared or recognized condition of insolvency of a…Banks · An English toponymic surname for someone who lives near a…banned · Forbidden; not allowed.