(a.) Not solvent; not having sufficient estate to pay one's debts; unable to pay one's debts as they fall due, in the ordinary course of trade and business; as, in insolvent debtor.
(a.) Not sufficient to pay all the debts of the owner; as, an insolvent estate.
(a.) Relating to persons unable to pay their debts.
(n.) One who is insolvent; as insolvent debtor; -- in England, before 1861, especially applied to persons not traders.
Example Sentences:
(1) The GMB union said that there was a risk that vulnerable people could be made homeless, but in the event of insolvency, Southern Cross's 31,000 homes would be run by local authorities or landlords on behalf of an administrator.
(2) Slowing growth, financial fragility, governments teetering on the brink of insolvency and default, and clear signs of a public backlash against the excesses of the rich and powerful: all have created a sombre backdrop to the invitation-only affair.
(3) The boys attempted to solve two different sets of 10 find-a-word puzzles, one set following exposure to solvable puzzles, and one set following exposure to insolvable puzzles.
(4) The number of people in England and Wales entering insolvency fell in the first three months of 2012, but debt charities warned the figures represented "the tip of the iceberg" of the UK's debt problems.
(5) But the insolvency profession trade body, R3, blamed the Insolvency Service for not providing clear guidelines on how to complete the SIP 16 forms and said the changes could drive up costs.
(6) Six months later, Greece is in effect insolvent, on the brink of the common currency's first case of sovereign debt default unless it is bailed out.
(7) At that point the Bank regarded the problem as one of liquidity – a lack of cash flow – rather than the risk of insolvency.
(8) "When the economy finally does improve, the number of corporate insolvencies will continue to rise, even if at a slower rate, due to a lag effect.
(9) As a result, and regardless of how the charity is established, trustees can attract personal liability for the debts or losses of the charity where that charity finds itself in an insolvent situation.
(10) • IVAs can only be drawn up and presented to creditors by a licensed insolvency practitioner.
(11) We examined the effects of methylphenidate on the task persistence of 21 boys with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), after they had been exposed to both solvable and insolvable problems.
(12) She said the company's directors could not be held liable as they step aside during the insolvency process.
(13) A charity will be considered to be insolvent when it is unable to pay its debts as they fall due.
(14) The chancellor, Alistair Darling, told MPs yesterday that the ailing mutual, the UK's 12th largest, was close to insolvency.
(15) The onerous terms of the deeply unpopular “memoranda”, agreed with foreign lenders to keep insolvent Greece afloat, would be overturned.
(16) If a bank becomes insolvent the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) steps in.
(17) An insolvency specialist today warned of a "deluge" of business failures next year, saying the UK is in the mid-point of a W-shaped recession.
(18) Merkel has become increasingly isolated in the last fortnight over Germany's insistence that Greece's private creditors – the banks, pension funds and insurance companies holding much of the insolvent country's €340bn of debt – have to take "haircuts" or sizeable losses on their investments as part of this second deal to rescue Greece.
(19) SWANSEA CITY Accounts for the year to 31 May 2014 Ownership Martin Morgan, 23.7%; Brian Katzen, 21.1%; Swansea City Supporters Society Limited (supporters trust) 21.1%; chairman Huw Jenkins 13.2%; Robert Davies 10.5% Turnover 13th highest, £99m (up from £67m in 2013) Match income £9m Media £81m Commercial and other £9m Wage bill Joint 14th highest, £63m (up from £49m in 2013) Wages as proportion of turnover 64% Profit before tax £1m (down from £21m in 2013) Net debt Nil; £2m cash in the bank Interest payable £0.015m Highest-paid director Huw Jenkins, £550,000 State they’re in The Swans’ epic paddle from bottom division and insolvency to Premier League and new stadium owned by a consortium of fan-businessmen, including 20% held by the supporters trust, was committed to documentary with A Jack to a King.
(20) The engineering company UGL agreed to pay Leung £4m in relation to its acquisition of DTZ Holdings, an insolvent property services firm that had employed Leung as its Asia Pacific director before he took office, Melbourne-based The Age reported on Wednesday .
Pauper
Definition:
(n.) A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally, a postscript offers a parallel between the writings of Charles Dickens and the pauper cemetery.
(2) "What this and every government has to understand is that Greeks aren't willing to pauper themselves to pay off debt for which they are not to blame.
(3) Although ostensibly instituted to render care to "female paupers," the matronized nursing service was readily expanded, and subsequently delivered care to the entire, predominantly indigent patient population.
(4) Powell's world is well supplied with pubs without being beery, and there are times when the streets are thronged with well-born paupers conscientiously dodging their creditors.
(5) Psychological, ethical and political issues of the HIV and AIDS epidemic on one part, the pauperization of people with AIDS on the other have given birth to AIDS organizations and to a creative solidarity amongst PWA.
(6) A state-subsidised boom for inner London; a neglected pauperism for the Humber.
(7) The free TV licences, the free bus passes, the winter fuel allowance, whether pauper or billionaire, the lucky pensioner will keep the lot.
(8) Meanwhile, Channel 5 has developed its own pauper-baiting programme, On Benefits & Proud , and its cousin, Gypsies On Benefits & Proud .
(9) Manet certainly painted the city's darker corners: the paupers, prostitutes, vagrants and the places they frequented, but it was with the eye of an observer, says Stéphane Guégan, curator of the 2011 Manet exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
(10) The economics are simple: all taxpayers - princes and paupers alike - will be paying for a few lucky souls to treat themselves to a new car.
(11) The club itself, though, is no pauper; it is owned by Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha via his King Power duty free monopoly in Thailand, who wrote off £101m loans in 2014.
(12) Le Dantec Paupers' Hospital, which admits an average of 10.000 patients per year to its surgical, medical, specialized medical and paediatric units.
(13) In the circumstances, the paupers raised their game to a degree that reflected great credit on themselves, and in particular their alchemist of a manager.
(14) Clair has pointed out that when it was suggested by Joseph Ignace Guillotin in 1789, the idea of making mechanical decapitation the uniform means of France's execution stemmed not from barbarity but from a desire to make death as quick and painless as possible for the victim, whether a prince or a pauper.
(15) And it’s make-do-and-mend time again – perhaps not in your house, but down here among the paupers, which means knitting is vital.
(16) Chaplin plays both a Jewish barber and a comically paranoid and ruthless dictator called Adenoid Hynkel; riffing on Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, each man is mistaken for the other.
(17) Among the incidents explored in the chapter, which focuses on the fate of those who went missing or were forcibly disappeared, investigators found that members of the armed forces detained an unknown but probably large number of civilians at a checkpoint on a road south of Cairo who have not been seen again; detained and tortured protesters in the Egyptian Museum before moving them to military prisons, killing at least one person, and delivered to government coroners in the capital at least 11 unidentified bodies, believed to be former prisoners, who were buried in paupers' graves four months later.
(18) The return of the pauper’s funeral to austerity Britain Read more Increasingly families in the UK are choosing to exercise other freedoms too.
(19) If this just means throwing more money at private developers, for private buyers, with the proviso of a few social units that can be accessed through a pauper’s entrance , that’s not going to help.
(20) The brochure was promoting a scheme where you take waif kids and kids of the pauper class and the slums before they could be corrupted by the poverty and crime of England and send them to Australia for education and opportunity in schools like Fairbridge, where we would become strong and long-limbed by working the farms,” Hill says.