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bankruptcy
[ bangk-ruhpt-see, -ruhp-see ]
noun
- the state of being or becoming bankrupt.
- utter ruin, failure, depletion, or the like.
bankruptcy
/ ˈbæŋkrʌptsɪ; -rəptsɪ /
noun
- the state, condition, or quality of being or becoming bankrupt
bankruptcy
- Legally declared insolvency, or inability to pay creditors .
Notes
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±è°ù±ð·²ú²¹²Ô°ì۳ܱè³Ù·³¦²â noun plural prebankruptcies
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of bankruptcy1
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Example Sentences
They enter old age with little or no savings, medical problems without adequate coverage, a necessity to work in order to eat and have a place to live, and, unsurprisingly, increasing rates of bankruptcy filings.
Forever 21, an early leader in fast fashion, couldn’t compete with the likes of Zara, H&M and Shein and filed for bankruptcy for a second time last month.
Donald Trump may be overseeing and intensifying a planetary bankruptcy, a kind of decline and fall that hasn’t been part of the human experience until now.
Farmers were hammered by retaliatory tariffs during Trump’s first term as badly as the rest of us will be damaged in his second; farm bankruptcies soared, as did Farm Belt suicides.
Those claims running into three quarters of a billion pounds were one of the driving factors that pushed the council into effective bankruptcy in 2023.
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