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bankruptcy
noun
1 bankruptcy
A state of complete lack of some abstract property.
2 bankruptcy
Inability to discharge all your debts as they come due:
— The company had to declare bankruptcy.
synonym: failure.
Roget 732:
failure;
nonsuccess†,
nonfulfillment;
dead failure,
successlessness†;
abortion,
miscarriage;
brutum fulmen
etc.
158 [Lat.];
labor in vain
etc.
(inutility)
645;
no go;
inefficacy†;
inefficaciousness
etc.
adj.;
vain attempt,
ineffectual attempt,
abortive attempt,
abortive efforts;
flash in the pan,
lame and impotent conclusion"
[Othello];
frustration;
slip 'twixt cup and lip
etc.
(disappointment)
509.
blunder
etc.
(mistake)
495;
fault,
omission,
miss,
oversight,
slip,
trip,
stumble,
claudication†,
footfall;
false step,
wrong step;
faux pas [Fr.],
titubation†,
b_evue [Fr.],
faute [Fr.],
lurch;
botchery
etc.
(want of skill)
699†;
scrape,
mess,
fiasco,
breakdown;
flunk [U.S.].
mishap
etc.
(misfortune)
735;
split,
collapse,
smash,
blow,
explosion.
repulse,
rebuff,
defeat,
rout,
overthrow,
discomfiture;
beating,
drubbing;
quietus,
nonsuit†,
subjugation;
checkmate,
stalemate,
fool's mate.
fall,
downfall,
ruin,
perdition;
wreck
etc.
(destruction)
162;
deathblow;
bankruptcy
etc.
(nonpayment)
808.
losing game,
affaire flamb_ee.
victim;
bankrupt;
flunker†,
flunky [U.S.].
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Roget 808:
nonpayment;
default,
defalcation;
protest,
repudiation;
application of the sponge†;
whitewashing.
insolvency,
bankruptcy,
failure;
insufficiency
etc.
640;
run upon a bank;
overdrawn account.
waste paper bonds;
dishonored bills,
protested bills;
bogus check,
bogus cheque,
rubber check.
bankrupt,
insolvent,
debtor,
lame duck,
man of straw,
welsher,
stag,
defaulter,
levanter†.
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Polish: bankructwo, krach, niewypłacalność, plajta, upadłość
3 bankruptcy
A legal process intended to insure equality among the creditors of a corporation declared to be insolvent.
Dutch: faillisement, bankroet
Moby thesaurus: bouncing check, breakage, breakdown, bust, collapse, crack-up, crash, crippling, damage, defeat, destruction, detriment, dilapidation, disablement, disrepair, encroachment, failure, futility, harm, hobbling, hurt, hurting, ill success, impairment, incapacitation, infringement, injury, inroad, insolvency, insufficient funds, kited check, losing game, loss, maiming, mayhem, mischief, mutilation, no go, nonaccomplishment, nonsuccess, overdraft, overdrawn account, receivership, ruination, ruinousness, sabotage, scathe, sickening, spoiling, successlessness, unsuccess, unsuccessfulness, uselessness, weakening ... show more.
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