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bankrupt

/bangk-ruhpt, -ruhpt/US // ˈbæŋk rʌpt, -rəpt //UK // (ˈbæŋkrʌpt, -rəpt) //

破产,破产人,破产的,破产者

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n.名词 noun
  1. 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.
    • : any insolvent debtor; a person unable to satisfy any just claims made upon him or her.
    • : a person who is lacking in a particular thing or quality: a moral bankrupt.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Law. subject to or under legal process because of insolvency; insolvent.
    • : at the end of one's resources; lacking: bankrupt of compassion; bankrupt in good manners.
    • : pertaining to bankrupts or bankruptcy.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make bankrupt: His embezzlement bankrupted the company.

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Examples

  • While serving on the bench for more than 25 years, Fitzgerald oversaw multibillion-dollar coverage disputes waged between bankrupt companies and their insurers.

  • SoftBank-backed OneWeb got hundreds of satellites in orbit but went bankrupt earlier this year and was bought by a group led by the British government.

  • You know, if you’ve got a parking lot and you go bankrupt — well, the parking lot gets transferred to your creditors and they’ll develop the parking lot.

  • It allows you, if you’re confronted with a medical issue and your insurance is not up to par, it allows you to be able to deal with that health issue without the risk of going bankrupt.

  • The company shifted its focus away from South America toward the United States, plunging cash instead in Texas-based projects like Oncor Electric Delivery, the state’s once bankrupt and largest transmission and distribution electric utility.

  • These are men who now have wives and children, and their silence so many years later shows how morally bankrupt they remain.

  • Afterward he went bankrupt and said the stress caused him to split from his girlfriend.

  • It was that we have serious fiscal problems that are going to bankrupt cities and towns—literally—and hurt a lot of people.

  • By the late summer, AIG was functionally bankrupt—unable to meet financial obligations or raise new cash.

  • By the time the airline declared itself bankrupt in 1991, more than 90,000 people, including Ronald Reagan, were still waiting.

  • Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.

  • Any person who owes debts, or business corporation, may become a voluntary bankrupt.

  • The judge or referee must be present at this meeting, also the bankrupt if required by the court.

  • Then follows the first meeting of the bankrupt's creditors, within thirty days after the adjudication.

  • Whatever property on which a levy could have been made by judicial process against the bankrupt passes to the trustee.