bankrupt
adjective/ˈbæŋkrʌpt/
/ˈbæŋkrʌpt/
- without enough money to pay what you owe synonym insolvent
- They went bankrupt last year.
- The company was declared bankrupt in the High Court.
Extra ExamplesTopics Moneyc1- Hundreds of firms went bankrupt during the recession.
- Her husband was declared bankrupt.
- After the war, Britain was weary and bankrupt.
- She lost the house after she was made bankrupt.
- The firm went bankrupt in 2024 and all its assets were sold off.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- go
- …
- almost
- nearly
- virtually
- …
- of
- bankrupt (of something) (formal, disapproving) having absolutely nothing of any value
- a government bankrupt of new ideas
- a society that is morally bankrupt
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Italian banca rotta ‘broken bench’, from banca (from medieval Latin banca, bancus, of Germanic origin) and rompere ‘to break’. The change in the ending was due to association with Latin rupt- ‘broken’.
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