(n.) The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.
(n.) The act or process of becoming a bankrupt.
(n.) Complete loss; -- followed by of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ukraine has said it needs $35 billion over the next two years to stave off bankruptcy.
(2) Banking group HBOS was not driven to point of bankruptcy by the global financial meltdown, but by its own strategy of high-risk lending, over-ambitious growth targets and poor controls, according to a hard-hitting report by the parliamentary commission on banking standards.
(3) To be sure, it may not be possible to establish a full international bankruptcy code; but a consensus could be reached on many issues.
(4) He is totally comfortable around Wall Street and bankers.” Trump’s effort to characterize himself as without obligation to the financial sector despite his long record of loans and debt restructuring during episodic turbulence in his business career, including the bankruptcy of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts in 2004, is likely to raise eyebrows.
(5) We know that in England there are trusts that are on the verge of bankruptcy and 4,500 nurses have been made redundant .
(6) But even if Greece is snatched from the brink of bankruptcy and kept in the euro in the coming days, the cause of promoting solidarity between eurozone nations has been long forgotten.
(7) In conclusion, there is a reasonable chance that retirement plan assets in Delaware qualified plans are insulated from judgment creditors, but the best course is to maintain adequate insurance protection and follow an aggressive prejudgment strategy in serious cases so you don't have to resolve the issue in a bankruptcy proceeding.
(8) The crime problems were enormous, riots tore apart many American cities – and the downside of fiscal decentralisation was that, in the 70s, you had cities like New York on the edge of bankruptcy .
(9) Using standard ratio tests, most clubs border on bankruptcy.
(10) Picard has filed a complaint in the US bankruptcy court against Cohmad Securities Corporation and a number of its principals, seeking to recover well over $100m allegedly paid to Cohmad in exchange for introducing clients to Madoff's firm.
(11) But sometimes a smile is not enough.” As the latest proposed deal to avoid Greece’s bankruptcy threatens to unravel , a row is raging on Rhodes and several other Greek islands over fears that they are being unfairly targeted.
(12) For Mokoena, qualification for the second round would cap an extraordinary season that has encompassed bankruptcy and relegation at Fratton Park, a losing FA Cup final and now captaining his country at the first African World Cup.
(13) It is high time that we applied the same principles to countries and introduced a sovereign bankruptcy law.
(14) The bank filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which provides protection from creditors while it liquidates its business.
(15) If other unions follow suit in protest at Miliband's reforms, the party could face bankruptcy.
(16) Instead, they enact bankruptcy laws to provide the ground rules for creditor-debtor bargaining, thereby promoting efficiency and fairness.
(17) The International Monetary Fund has signed off on a $17.5bn (£11.8bn) four-year aid programme for Ukraine , the second attempt in less than a year to help the country avoid bankruptcy.
(18) People who never dreamed that one day they would not be able to pay their electricity bill, or feed their children properly.” As it has scrabbled for every last cent to satisfy its creditors and ward off bankruptcy, Greece’s government has taken cash wherever it could – local authorities, healthcare, pensions, social services have all been tapped.
(19) Days before it collapsed into bankruptcy protection a month ago Lehman Brothers revealed $6.12bn of staff pay plans in its corporate filings.
(20) Bankruptcy could potentially leave thousands of residents – many of them elderly and vulnerable – with nowhere to live, or forced into a disruptive move to alternative accommodation.
Monopoly
Definition:
(n.) The exclusive power, or privilege of selling a commodity; the exclusive power, right, or privilege of dealing in some article, or of trading in some market; sole command of the traffic in anything, however obtained; as, the proprietor of a patented article is given a monopoly of its sale for a limited time; chartered trading companies have sometimes had a monopoly of trade with remote regions; a combination of traders may get a monopoly of a particular product.
(n.) Exclusive possession; as, a monopoly of land.
(n.) The commodity or other material thing to which the monopoly relates; as, tobacco is a monopoly in France.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
(2) In June 2012 we got our first elected president, and, in his first year in office, the state's monopoly on violence was broken.
(3) The data on tobacco consumption, from 1900 to 1985, was obtained from official publication of the Administration of the State Monopolies or from unpublished material kindly provided by the same Administration.
(4) As psychiatry belongs to the system, it received the monopoly of access to the symbolic and mental dimension which is included in the disorders.
(5) • The Catholic church's near monopoly of influence in education means that the ultimate power in each school is the local Catholic bishop.
(6) And they say the Trans-Pacific deal will do big favours for pharmaceutical companies and other US corporations, for instance, by lengthening copyright protections and the monopoly period for newly developed drugs.
(7) As his recent study on the retailer points out, when it comes to digital distribution of entertainment, Amazon is very far from being a monopoly.
(8) "I don't ... believe that the organisation ever seeks to behave in anything but the most socially responsible way – but monopolies will always act in their own best interests, and those interests may not coincide with those of the rest of us.
(9) The chief executive of Europe's largest newspaper publisher has accused Google of abusing a monopoly position in the digital economy to discriminate against competitors and build up a "superstate".
(10) No longer monopolies or oligopolies, the barrier to entry to their kingdom and business reduced to an inch, they simply cannot maintain their old scale, the size and margins that the City demanded.
(11) "We had a second open access company, Wrexham and Shropshire, and that ran a popular service which was hampered by monopoly rights that Virgin have enjoyed.
(12) Despite a near monopoly in many towns, HMV stores were seeing sales slump year after year, even at paper-thin margins.
(13) Fortune Magazine predicted that “ the apparent M-Pesa monopoly may be set to crumble ”, indicating that the new licensing regime could open up the market long dominated by Safaricom.
(14) And it’s partly about tailoring use of data, so I can choose what apps and systems I share my information with, rather than giving one firm a monopoly over where my vital statistics are sent and analysed.
(15) The government doesn’t have a monopoly on patriotism, Shorten says.
(16) Despite the recent announcement of an EU antitrust case against Google , which is accused of unfairly using its monopoly in search to boost its online shopping product, the paper says that competition law isn’t the right way to enforce fairness, since the cases are “lengthy and expensive”.
(17) 3.47pm BST Greece to sell gambling stake; maybe lease islands The Greek privatisation office has announced that it will start the process of selling its 29% stake in OPAP , the state gambling monopoly.
(18) David Cameron will herald new moves to open up public services to private providers when he hails the role of “insurgent companies” and speaks of the benefit of “breaking state monopolies”.
(19) "Telecoms is a very good example: for a long time, we had a government monopoly, which stifled innovation, and the service was poor.
(20) It will promote an environment that is consistent with effective competition; it will challenge abusive monopoly behaviour, take steps to promote competition where customers are being disadvantaged (for instance, in retail banking) and promote long-term investment rather than the casino capitalism that has disadvantaged the UK’s economy and social cohesion.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the BBC’s Newsnight programme Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, forgets the name of the Labour’s small businesses leader, Bill Thomas.