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bankruptcy

noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

A legally declared or recognized condition of insolvency of a person or organization.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: business, finance, law

Examples

  • The company ended up filing for bankruptcy.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A rule in Tycoon where if the top player does not get first place that round, they instantly get last place

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: card-games, games

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: proceeding, legal proceeding, proceedings

4

noun

Meaning 4

inability to discharge all your debts as they come due

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the company had to declare bankruptcy
  • fraudulent loans led to the failure of many banks

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: failure

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: insolvency

5

noun

Meaning 5

a state of complete lack of some abstract property

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • spiritual bankruptcy
  • moral bankruptcy
  • intellectual bankruptcy

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: failure

History

Etymology

From bankrupt + -cy, replacing earlier bankruptship.

Across languages

Translations

117 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: bankrot — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Afrikaans: insolvent — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Afrikaans: bankrotskap — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Albanian: falimentim — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Arabic: إِفْلَاس (ʔiflās) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Armenian: սնանկություն (snankutʻyun) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Basque: porrot — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Belarusian: банкру́цтва (bankrúctva) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Belarusian: банкро́цтва (bankróctva) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Bengali: দেউলিয়া (deuliẏa) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Bulgarian: фали́т (falít) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Bulgarian: банкру́т (bankrút) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Bulgarian: несъстоя́телност (nesǎstojátelnost) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Burmese: ဒေဝါလီခံခြင်း (dewalihkamhkrang:) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Catalan: fallida — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Cherokee: ᏗᎵᏍᏆᎳᏍᏗᏱ (dilisqualasdiyi) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Chinese Mandarin: 破產 /破产 (pòchǎn) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Cornish: bankskwattyans — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Czech: úpadek — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Czech: bankrot — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Czech: konkurz — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Danish: konkurs — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Danish: betalingsstandsning — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Danish: fallit — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Danish: bankerot — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Dutch: faillissement — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Dutch: bankroet — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Dutch: failliet — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Dutch: faling — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Dutch: surseance van betaling — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Esperanto: bankroto — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Estonian: pankrot — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Finnish: konkurssi — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Finnish: vararikko — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • French: faillite — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • French: banqueroute — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Friulian: faliment — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Friulian: bancjerote — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Galician: bancarrota — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Galician: quebra — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Galician: creba — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Georgian: ბანკროტობა (banḳroṭoba) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • German: Bankrott — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • German: Pleite — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • German: Konkurs — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Greek: πτώχευση (ptóchefsi) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Greek: χρεωκοπία (chreokopía) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Hebrew: פְּשִׁיטַת־רֶגֶל (pshitat-régel) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Hindi: दिवाला (divālā) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Hindi: दिवालियापन (divāliyāpan) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Hindi: कंगाली (kaṅgālī) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Hungarian: csőd — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Icelandic: gjaldþrot — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Ido: bankroto — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Indonesian: bangkrut — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Indonesian: kebangkrutan — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Indonesian: kepailitan — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Irish: féimheacht — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Italian: bancarotta — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Japanese: 破産 (hasan) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Japanese: 破綻 (hatan) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Japanese: 倒産 (tōsan) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Kazakh: банкроттық (bankrottyq) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Khmer: ធនក្ស័យ (thĕəʼnĕəkksay) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Korean: 파산 (pasan) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Kyrgyz: банкроттук (bankrottuk) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Ladino: falimento — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Lao: ການລົ້ມລະລາຍ (kān lom la lāi) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Latin: dēcoctiō — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Latvian: bankrots — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Lithuanian: bankrotas — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Macedonian: банкро́т (bankrót) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Malay: kemuflisan — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Māori: pēkerapu — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Māori: pēkeraputanga — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Norman: banqueroute — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Norman: d'sastre — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Norwegian Bokmål: konkurs — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: konkurs — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Occitan: bancarota — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Occitan: falhida — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Persian: ورشکستگی (varšekastegi) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Polish: bankructwo — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Polish: plajta — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Polish: upadłość — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Polish: niewypłacalność — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Portuguese: falência — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Portuguese: bancarrota — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Punjabi: ਦਿਵਾਲ਼ਾ (divāḷā) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Romanian: faliment — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Russian: банкро́тство (bankrótstvo) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Russian: несостоя́тельность (nesostojátelʹnostʹ) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Scottish Gaelic: briseadh — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Serbo-Croatian: сте̏ча̄ј — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Serbo-Croatian: stȅčāj — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Slovak: bankrot — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Slovak: úpadok — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Slovak: konkurz — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Slovene: stečaj — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Spanish: bancarrota — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Spanish: quiebra — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Spanish: falencia — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Swahili: ufilisi — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Swedish: konkurs — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Tagalog: kiyebra — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Tajik: шикаст (šikast) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Telugu: దివాళా తీయు (divāḷā tīyu) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Thai: การล้มละลาย (gaan-lóm-lá-laai) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Turkish: iflas — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Ottoman Turkish: افلاس (iflâs) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Ukrainian: банкру́тство (bankrútstvo) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Ukrainian: банкро́тство (bankrótstvo) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Urdu: دیوالیہ پن — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Uzbek: bankrotlik — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Vietnamese: phá sản — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Welsh: methdaliad — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
  • Yiddish: באַנקראָטירונג (bankrotirung) — legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
Real reading context

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