bankruptcy synonyms

bankruptcy

n.

insolvency, failure, financial loss or ruin, nonpayment, defaulting, repudiation, overdraft, defalcation, liquidation, chapter 11, economic death, pauperism, destitution, indigence, privation, distress, straitened circumstances, beggary, impecuniosity, ruin, ruination, going to the wall*.

Antonyms solvency, prosperity*, soundness.

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