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Bankrupt, Bankruptcy



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Bankrupt : adjective & noun : (person or company) which has been declared by a court not to be capable of paying its debts and whose affairs are put into the hands of a receiver

• He was adjudicated or declared bankrupt.

• A bankrupt property developer

• He went bankrupt after two years in business.


Certificated Bankrupt : bankrupt who has been discharged from bankruptcy with a certificate to show he was not at fault


Discharged Bankrupt : person who has been released from being bankrupt because he has paid his debts


Undischarged Bankrupt : person who has been declared bankrupt and has not been released from that state


Bankrupt : verb : to make someone become bankrupt

• The recession bankrupted my father.


Bankruptcy : noun : state of being bankrupt

• The recession has caused thousands of bankruptcies.


Adjudication of Bankruptcy or Declaration of Bankruptcy : legal order making someone bankrupt : discharge in bankruptcy being released from bankruptcy after paying debts


To file a petition in bankruptcy : to apply officially to be made bankrupt or to ask officially for someone else to be made bankrupt



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