单词 | bankrupt |
释义 | bankrupt /bangk"rupt, -reuhpt/, n. 1. Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law. 2. any insolvent debtor; a person unable to satisfy any just claims made upon him or her. 3. a person who is lacking in a particular thing or quality: a moral bankrupt. adj. 4. Law. subject to or under legal process because of insolvency; insolvent. 5. at the end of one's resources; lacking (usually fol. by of or in): bankrupt of compassion; bankrupt in good manners. 6. pertaining to bankrupts or bankruptcy. v.t. 7. to make bankrupt: His embezzlement bankrupted the company. [1525-35; < ML banca rupta bank broken; r. adaptations of It banca rota and F banqueroute in same sense] Syn. 4. destitute, impoverished. |
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