bankrupt
[ bangk-ruhpt, -ruhpt ]
/ ˈbæŋk rʌpt, -rəpt /
noun
Law.
a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
any insolvent debtor; a person unable to satisfy any just claims made upon him or her.
a person who is lacking in a particular thing or quality: a moral bankrupt.
adjective
verb (used with object)
to make bankrupt: His embezzlement bankrupted the company.
Origin of bankrupt
1525–35; < Medieval Latin
banca rupta bank broken; replacing adaptations of Italian
banca rota and French
banqueroute in same sense
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British Dictionary definitions for bankrupt
bankrupt
/ (ˈbæŋkrʌpt, -rəpt) /
noun
adjective
verb
(tr)
to make bankrupt
Word Origin for bankrupt
C16: from Old French
banqueroute, from Old Italian
bancarotta, from
banca
bank
1 +
rotta broken, from Latin
ruptus, from
rumpere to break