(n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
(n.) A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person.
(n.) A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities.
(a.) Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.
(a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.
(a.) Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.
(a.) Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
(v. t.) To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.
Example Sentences:
(1) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
(2) Aitken was subsequently declared bankrupt and went to prison.
(3) Green sold BHS for £1 a year ago to a little-known group of investors led by former bankrupt Dominic Chappell .
(4) The Greens controlled BHS for 15 years until they sold it to Dominic Chappell, a three-time bankrupt, for £1 in March 2015.
(5) The economist has managed to persuade fellow EU leaders to release a long-overdue €8bn (£6.8bn) tranche of aid – a lifeline without which the country would have gone bankrupt – but still faces the huge challenges of negotiating a new bailout agreement with international lenders, passing the budget with a majority vote and concluding a debt reduction deal, outlined in the latest €130bn rescue programme for the nation, in the coming weeks.
(6) Green sold BHS for £1 in March 2015 to Dominic Chappell, who has gone bankrupt three times.
(7) This position is both morally bankrupt and hypocritical.
(8) Dominic Chappell, the man who led the buyout, has been declared bankrupt twice.
(9) "I can't imagine how many Chinese factories will go bankrupt, how many Chinese workers would lose their jobs [in the event that China revalued]," he warned.
(10) The challenge facing Europe today goes far wider and deeper than how to handle a small bankrupt country holding only 2% of the EU’s population.
(11) The most famous is Borough Market (the pioneer but has the tendency to bankrupt) but Maltby Street (weekends only) in Bermondsey and Lower Marsh Street (weekdays) in Waterloo are worth a detour.
(12) Staff succeeded despite some seemingly impossible contradictions: John Cardinal O'Connor of the Archdiocese of New York, who has been opposed to the life-styles of most of the people who would use the unit (gays and IV abusers) urged the creation of the unit; St. Clare's had been bankrupt and virtually dismantled just a few years earlier; and the hospital did not have the financial resources, facilities, or AIDS patient caseload of the larger, well-known New York medical institutions.
(13) If you are made bankrupt it is possible to get the bankruptcy order annulled if you can get your creditors to agree to what is called a fast track IVA.
(14) May responded with her well-worn line about Labour borrowing plans that would bankrupt Britain.
(15) The confidence vote was but one step in a long and arduous journey to putting near-bankrupt Greece back on its feet – financially, politically and increasingly socially – barely a year after it secured €110bn (£97bn) in emergency aid, the biggest bailout in western history.
(16) The financial crisis in 2008, the world property crash and Anglo Irish Bank's collapse led to him being bankrupted.
(17) It might be really sordid and bad sexual etiquette, but whatever else it is, it is not rape or you bankrupt the term rape of all meaning."
(18) Aides close to Tsipras insisted that Athens had little desire to “seek enemies abroad” but the leftist leader had a duty to disclose the details of last month’s dramatic negotiations with creditors to keep the bankrupt country afloat.
(19) On Friday in St Petersburg, Florida, the legendary pro-wrestler, whose real name is Terry Bollea, delivered a $115m legal hit on the iconoclastic web publisher, a victory that signals a significant change in the public’s tolerance for media invasions of privacy – and that could bankrupt the site.
(20) Not in the bankrupting part, but they were right that this was a massive corporate giveaway, and they were right that it wasn't going to bring us anywhere near what scientists were saying we needed to do lower emissions.
Broken
Definition:
(p. p.) of Break
(v. t.) Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish.
(v. t.) Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface.
(v. t.) Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships.
(v. t.) Subdued; humbled; contrite.
(v. t.) Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse.
(v. t.) Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted.
(v. t.) Not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law.
(v. t.) Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman.
(v. t.) Imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner; as, broken English; imperfectly spoken on account of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at parting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results suggest that Cd-MT is reabsorbed and broken down by kidney tubule cells in a physiological manner with possible subsequent release of the toxic cadmium ion.
(2) The starting point is the idea that the current system, because it works against biodiversity but fails to increase productivity, is broken.
(3) Again, the boys in care that he abused now speak to us as broken adults.
(4) I think they want to set an example … I don't see anyone who has broken the law."
(5) Records were broken on seats lost and swings suffered.
(6) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
(7) The organizers of the protest march he participated in said the man had fallen ill before any rioting had broken out.
(8) In June 2012 we got our first elected president, and, in his first year in office, the state's monopoly on violence was broken.
(9) Ings twisted the knee during his first training session with Klopp in charge and tests have shown the former Burnley forward ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament, meaning that a player who has just broken into England’s senior team will be out for a minimum of six months.
(10) Regardless of cyst localization, lowest diagnostic sensitivity was observed in patients whose cysts were intact and of the hyaline type, whereas recently broken cysts were associated with the most consistently detectable immune response.
(11) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(12) Don was racing the Dodge through the Bonneville Salt Flats , where Gary Gabelich had just (on 23 October) broken the land-speed record.
(13) The time course for these events suggested that the genetic code for synthesis of thymidine kinase can be expressed before "cores" are broken down, but the DNA-polymerase can be synthesized only after liberation of the viral DNA.
(14) Chemical analyses of the radioactive species in the incubation medium showed that a considerable portion of the radiolabeled sugar nucleotide had broken down to cytidine, phosphoric acid, and sialic acid.
(15) She also said that US embassy officials and doctors – who had been blocked from seeing Chen – met him on Friday.said that They said Chen had three broken bones from his escape, and his foot was in a cast.
(16) The size of the broken stone fragments was less than 2 mm in 24 cases (68.5%) and 2 to 5 mm in 10 cases (28.6%), which indicated that the procedure was very effective.
(17) Mohammed Salama, 23, an Al Ahly ultra whose leg was broken in the stadium riot, said it became clear at half-time in the match between the two historical foes that trouble was brewing.
(18) "For so long, management kept us down; they've broken us and bullied us," he said.
(19) Patrick Vieira, captain and on-pitch embodiment of Wenger’s reign, won the trophy with the last kick of his career at the club in the season when the Arsenal-United axis was finally broken by Chelsea at the top of the Premier League.
(20) Trierweiler has broken a fundamental principle of French political life, an unwritten law inherited from the Ancien Régime and perpetuated by France's revolutionary nomenklatura, that the private life – and by that I mean sex life – of a public figure must remain inviolable.