A state of complete lack of some abstract property.

Inability to discharge all your debts as they come due:
— The company had to declare bankruptcy.

synoniem: 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.].    ... meer laten zien

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^†.    ... meer laten zien

Pools: bankructwo, krach, niewypłacalność, plajta, upadłość

A legal process intended to insure equality among the creditors of a corporation declared to be insolvent.

Nederlands: faillisement, bankroet