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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121. Given the margins on most computer deals and the time it takes to organise shipment, this will bankrupt most companies.
122. The former brewing, media and property magnate went bankrupt in April owing millions of pounds.
123. The bankrupt cattle barons dismissed thousands of hired hands, who were forced to find new careers.
124. The co-op went bankrupt during the Great Depression, said Gross, and maintenance slowly ground to a halt.
125. Mum has been a lot more cheerful since Quigley was declared bankrupt, insane and guilty of fraud.
126. The conservative critique along such lines argues that liberalism is morally bankrupt.
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127. He claimed that American political leaders were morally bankrupt for not meeting welfare needs.
128. It arose out of an action for professional negligence against a firm of accountants, but the person bringing the action went bankrupt.
129. If you go bankrupt my earnings will be our only fallback.
130. By 1815, a brief postwar upsurge in trade had been and gone and in the same year they went bankrupt.
131. The boll weevil infests cotton fields and millionaires go bankrupt.
132. Many of the industries chosen for government investment have in fact already gone bankrupt.
133. Both Venables and Sugar attended a 90-minute board meeting at the club which agreed to dismiss Ashby, an alleged undischarged bankrupt.
134. As Turbosoft were not a limited liability company, the proprietors are personally liable for the losses and could be made bankrupt.
135. More than 1, 000 companies a month have gone bankrupt for 35 months now.
136. Being declared bankrupt also disqualifies you from holding certain public offices.
137. The UN warned creditors to ease Brazil's debt burden or see the country go bankrupt.
138. Part of the answer is of course that they have little choice if, for example[sentencedict.com], the firm is made bankrupt.
139. I don't want to be left in the backwash when Gilson realizes the company's going bankrupt.
140. The risk of California's electricity utilities going bankrupt has added to the market's jitters.
141. Five years ago she was a successful actress, but now she is bankrupt.
142. Many were polluted years or decades ago by companies that are now defunct or bankrupt.
143. She married a weakling who turned into a bankrupt, and in helping save her husband she bankrupted her uncle.
144. In a few years you will blow your brains out, a bankrupt.
145. Obviously, the cost of building and installing a sys-tem big enough to support the average family would bankrupt a small nation.
146. Canceling the tour not only would bankrupt the club, Pascoe said, but also ruin its reputation.
147. The bankruptcy order does not act as an automatic stay of all proceedings against the bankrupt.
148. Things became even more difficult when one of his principal backers went bankrupt.
149. Investors lost their savings and some businessmen, more particularly the smaller ones, went bankrupt.
150. Some people work for a firm that goes bankrupt; some people invest early in Rank Xerox.