The lack of financial resources.

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^†.    ... show more

Roget 640: insufficiency; inadequacy, inadequateness; incompetence etc. (impotence) 158; deficiency etc. (incompleteness) 53; imperfection etc. 651; shortcoming etc. 304; paucity; stint; scantiness etc. (smallness) 32; none to spare, bare subsistence.    scarcity, dearth; want, need, lack, poverty, exigency; inanition, starvation, famine, drought.    dole, mite, pittance; short allowance, short commons; half rations; banyan day.    emptiness, poorness etc. adj.; depletion, vacancy, flaccidity; ebb tide; low water; a beggarly account of empty boxes" [Romeo and Juliet]; indigence etc. 804; insolvency etc. (nonpayment) 808.    ... show more

Roget 804: poverty, indigence, penury, pauperism, destitution, want; need, neediness; lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties, wolf at the door.    bad circumstances, poor circumstances, need circumstances, embarrassed circumstances, reduced circumstances, straightened circumstances; slender means, narrow means; straits; hand to mouth existence, res angusta domi [Lat.], low water, impecuniosity.    beggary; mendicancy, mendicity^†; broken fortune, loss of fortune; insolvency etc. (nonpayment) 808.    empty pocket, empty purse; light purse; beggarly account of empty boxes.    [poor people] poor man, pauper, mendicant, mumper^†, beggar, starveling; pauvre diable [Fr.]; fakir^†, schnorrer^†; homeless person.    ... show more

Roget 806: debt, obligation, liability, indebtment^†, debit, score.    bill; check; account (credit) 805.    arrears, deferred payment, deficit, default, insolvency etc. (nonpayment) 808; bad debt.    interest; premium; usance^†, usury; floating debt, floating capital.    debtor, debitor^†; mortgagor; defaulter etc. 808; borrower.    ... show more

Dutch: insolventie, onvermogen