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bankrupt

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English

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Etymology

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Partial calque ofItalianbancarotta(literally“a broken bench”), frombanca(“bank”, literally“bench”) +rotta(“broken, rupted”), which refers to an out-of-business bank, having its bench physically broken, signifying that the working moneylender was insolvent.

Pronunciation

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(UK)IPA^(key): /ˈbæŋ.kɹəpt/,/ˈbæŋ.kɹʌpt/
(US)IPA^(key): /ˈbæŋk.ɹəpt/,/ˈbæŋk.ɹʌpt/
Audio(Southern England): (file)
Rhymes:-æŋkɹəpt,-æŋkɹʌpt
Hyphenation:bank‧rupt

Adjective

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bankrupt (comparativemorebankrupt,superlativemostbankrupt)

(finance, of aperson,company, etc.) In a condition ofbankruptcy; unable to pay outstandingdebts or meetfinancialobligations; specifically, having been legally declaredinsolvent.[from 1565]
Synonyms:seeThesaurus:impoverished
abankrupt merchant
- 1926,Ernest Hemingway,The Sun Also Rises, page141:
  "How did you gobankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly."
(figurative)Destitute of, or whollylacking a goodquality,value, etc. one should possess or once possessed.[from 1567]
amorallybankrupt politician
- 1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan],The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published1775,→OCLC, Act V, scene i,page80:
  O Julia! I ambankrupt in gratitude! but the time is ſo preſſing, it calls on you for ſo haſty a reſolution.

Translations

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having been legally declared insolvent

Albanian:please add this translation if you can
Arabic:مُفْلِس (ar)(muflis)
Armenian:սնանկ (hy)(snank)
Basque:please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian:банкрут (bg)(bankrut)
Catalan:arruïnat (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin:破產著 /破产着(pòchǎnzhe)
Czech:please add this translation if you can
Danish:bankerot,fallit,konkurs
Dutch:bankroet (nl),in faling,failliet (nl)
Esperanto:bankrota
Estonian:please add this translation if you can
Finnish:vararikossa,vararikkoinen,konkurssissa
French:en faillite (fr),failli (fr)
Georgian:please add this translation if you can
German:bankrott (de)
Greek:χρεωκοπημένος (el)(chreokopiménos)
Hebrew:פּוֹשֵׁט רֶגֶל (he)(poshét régel)
Hindi:दिवालिया (hi) m(divāliyā),दिवलीया m(divlīyā)
Hungarian:tönkrement (hu) sg,csődbe jutott
Icelandic:gjaldþrota
Indonesian:bangkrut (id),pailit (id)
Italian:fallito (it)
Japanese:破産した (ja)(はさんした, hasan-shita),倒産した (ja)(とうさんした, tōsan-shita),破綻した (ja)(はたんした, hatan-shita)
Khmer:ក្ស័យធន(ksâythôn),ធនក្ស័យ(thĕəʼnĕəkksay)
Korean:파산 (ko)(pasan)
Latvian:please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian:please add this translation if you can
Malay:bangkrap,muflis (ms)
Maori:pēkerapu,mone
Mongolian:дампуу (mn)(dampuu)
Nepali:please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål:konkurs
Nynorsk:konkurs
Persian:ورشکسته (fa)(varšekaste),^{(pleaseverify)}مفلس (fa)(mofles)
Plautdietsch:bankrott
Polish:zbankrutowany m
Portuguese:bancarrota (pt) f,falido (pt)
Punjabi:ਦਿਵਾਲ਼ੀਆ(divāḷīā)
Romanian:falimentar (ro),falit (ro)(colloquial),mofluz (ro)(archaic)
Russian:обанкро́тившийся (ru)(obankrótivšijsja)
Spanish:quebrado (es),arruinado (es)
Swedish:bankrutt (sv)
Tagalog:pagkalugi,bangkarote
Thai:please add this translation if you can
Turkish:müflis (tr)
Ukrainian:банкру́т (uk) m(bankrút),банкро́т (uk) m(bankrót)
Vietnamese:phá sản (vi)
Welsh:methdalwr m(The noun is usually used.)

Verb

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bankrupt (third-person singular simple presentbankrupts,present participlebankrupting,simple past and past participlebankrupted)

(transitive) To force intobankruptcy.
- 1953 August, David R. Webb, “By Rail to Bournemouth”, inRailway Magazine, page553:
  The cost of the Mendip line had, however,bankrupted the S.D.R. [Somerset & Dorset Railway], and it was leased to the two larger companies for 999 years in 1875, and named the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway.

Translations

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force into bankruptcy

Bulgarian:разорявам (bg)(razorjavam),причинявам фалит на(pričinjavam falit na)
Chinese:
Mandarin:破產 /破产 (zh)(pòchǎn)
Esperanto:bankroti
Finnish:pakottaa konkurssiin,saattaa konkurssiin
German:indenKonkurstreiben (de)
Ido:bankrotigar (io)
Italian:fallire (it)
Maori:pēkerapu,whakamone
Norwegian:konkurs,bankerott,insolvent
Romanian:falimenta
Russian:обанкро́тить (ru) pf(obankrótitʹ);разоря́ть (ru) impf(razorjátʹ),разори́ть (ru) pf(razorítʹ)

Noun

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bankrupt (pluralbankrupts)

One who becomes unable to pay his or herdebts; aninsolvent person; abankruptee.
(UK, law, obsolete) Atrader whosecretes himself, or does certain other acts tending todefraud hiscreditors.