bankruptadjective
uk/ˈbæŋ.krʌpt/us/ˈbæŋ.krʌpt/C1 unable to pay what you owe, and having had control of your financial matters given, by a law court, to a person who sells your property to pay your debts:
He went bankrupt after only a year in business.
The recession has led to many small businesses going bankrupt.
informal having no money:
I'll go bankrupt if you kids keep asking me for money!
disapproving not having any good qualities:
He believes that modern society is morally bankrupt.
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- The company went bankrupt and was put into the hands of the receivers.
- They piled up such a huge debt that they soon went bankrupt.
- When it was obvious the company was going bankrupt, the government ordered all their assets to be frozen.
- The business went bankrupt after investing an enormous amount on a product that failed to sell.
- Without the help of a generous investor, the theatre company would have gone bankrupt.
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Lacking things
- bankruptcy
- be hard up (for sth) idiom
- bereft
- catch
- cry out for sth
- cupboard
- demand
- hole
- lacking
- need
- need sth like you need a hole in the head idiom
- needful
- needy
- short
- take
- the cupboard is bare idiom
- the UN
- unsatisfied
- vacuum
- want
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bankruptnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbæŋ.krʌpt/us/ˈbæŋ.krʌpt/specializeda person who is officially bankrupt:
He was declared a bankrupt in 2011.
bankruptverb [ T ]
uk/ˈbæŋ.krʌpt/us/ˈbæŋ.krʌpt/to cause someone to become bankrupt:
They feared that the loss would bankrupt them.
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Success & failure in business
- administration
- axe
- bankruptcy
- branch
- branch out
- buy into sth
- collapse
- establish
- fold
- foreclose
- liquidate
- liquidator
- locate
- moribund
- official receiver
- organic growth
- prosper
- receivership
- shut (sth) down
- spin
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