Definition of bankruptcy

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Definition of bankruptcy

  • inability to discharge all your debts as they come due (noun)

    Examples

    1. the company had to declare bankruptcy

    Synonyms

    1. failure
  • a legal process intended to insure equality among the creditors of a corporation declared to be insolvent (noun)
  • a state of complete lack of some abstract property (noun)

    Examples

    1. spiritual bankruptcy
    2. moral bankruptcy
    3. intellectual bankruptcy

See definition of bankruptcy in Merriam Webster