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bank·rupt (baŋk′rupt′, -rəpt)

noun

  1. a person legally declared unable to pay his or her debts: the property of a bankrupt is administered for the benefit of his or her creditors and divided among them
  2. anyone unable to pay his or her debts
  3. a person who lacks a certain quality or has failed completely in some way a political bankrupt

Etymology: Fr banqueroute < It banca rotta < banca, bench (see bank) + rotta, broken < L rupta, fem. pp. of rumpere, to break: see rupture

adjective

  1. that is a bankrupt; insolvent
  2. lacking in some quality; destitute morally bankrupt
  3. that has failed completely a bankrupt foreign policy

transitive verb

to cause to become bankrupt

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law bankrupt definition - legal

bankrupt Synonyms

bankrupt

modif.

failed, out of business, broke*; see insolvent, ruined 4.


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bankrupt Usage Examples

Object

  • nation: You occasionally read an article or hear rumors about how the Nanny state in Scandinavia is bankrupting the nations.

Converse of object

  • discharge: People who have convictions for dishonesty or who are un discharged bankrupts are not allowed by law to manage or control charities.

Adjective modifier

  • undischarged: Reducing the number of restrictions that are automatically imposed on undischarged bankrupts.

Modifies a noun

  • wish: If the bankrupt wishes to consider a FTVA the standard FTVA forms should be provided for completion.

Modifying Another Word

  • morally: Is it merely throwing insults to say that a particular opinion is morally bankrupt?

Used with why or when

  • who: It's not easy to do... Did you know three organizations have gone bankrupt who have been involved with the Notting Hill Carnival?

Used with adjective complement

  • adjudge: In 1871 Digby Latimer, who had been adjudged bankrupt, put the Manor of Heddington up for sale by auction.
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bankrupt quotes

Why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son.

-Dryden,John

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