Synonym: belly-up, break, insolvent, ruin, smash. Similar words: bankruptcy, abrupt, disrupt, rupture, banker, bank on, banking, interrupt. Meaning: ['bæŋkrʌpt] n. someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts. v. reduce to bankruptcy. adj. financially ruined.
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91. On his release from prison as an undischarged bankrupt, he changed his name from Bowesfield to Sinclair.
92. He lent him several thousand dollars to help rescue his bankrupt textile business.
93. The Citizen's Advice Bureau says more than 150 people have applied to be made bankrupt in three months.
94. But politicians have borrowed decency from these words with such abandon, they are bankrupt.
95. Sections 238 and 239 are matched by comparable provisions, in sections 339 to 342, regarding individuals who are adjudged bankrupt.
96. Although he is now officially bankrupt[sentencedict.com], the underworld mastermind still has a multi-million-pound property empire.
97. At yesterday's private hearing in the High Court Kevin Maxwell was officially declared bankrupt for a record £406million.
98. For example your own columns continually describe Equitable as if it is bankrupt, in trouble, or in crisis.
99. Charles Keating, once a successful Phoenix property developer, has become the bankrupt symbol of the multi-billion dollar savings-and-loan debacle.
100. According to local folklore the contractor, who went bankrupt, was the first inmate detained for non payment of debts.
101. Many small businesses will go bankrupt unless interest rates fall.
102. The business won't go bankrupt, but that's cold comfort to the 15 people who lost their jobs.
103. The landowners had not been paid, the company went bankrupt and thereafter spent the rest of its corporate life in Chancery.
104. Then Conley got mixed up with Charlie Keating and somehow lost millions of dollars, eventually ending up bankrupt.
105. On 23 May 1983 a receiving order was made, and on 11 November 1983 Mr. Dennis was adjudicated bankrupt.
106. If that fails, the paper will be declared bankrupt and close.
107. Many thousands of decent people of all classes were made bankrupt in that way.
108. A number of the company's debts were written off even before they went bankrupt.
109. Under our law, a subsidiary can go bankrupt and normally the parent company will not be liable for its debts.
110. He realized that it would bankrupt the company if he continued the expansion.
111. Mr Begg gave warning that the consequences of being declared bankrupt would be harsh and severe.
112. When Quaker tea merchant Joseph Fry went bankrupt in 1828 his monthly meeting disowned him.
113. The family took out a 39 percent loan after Mr Harris was made bankrupt.
114. Mr Travers, a plasterer, who had lost his house when he had been made bankrupt, opened the window slowly.
115. The cards can be redeemed at special shops stocked with goods seized from bankrupt and failing enterprises in lieu of taxes.
116. A former grocer from Rector Street, at twenty he had gone bankrupt trying to run a cigar store on Pearl Street.
117. Skase was charged with two counts of corruption in May 1991, and was declared bankrupt on June 13.
118. But the project was all massively exaggerated by O'Rourke, a Walter Mitty conman just declared bankrupt.
119. The number of bankrupt individuals is growing, according to statistics from the Department of Trade and Industry.
120. The position of a trustee for a bankrupt certificate-holder is dealt with in note D below.