bankruptcy

English Thesaurus

1. a legal process intended to insure equality among the creditors of a corporation declared to be insolvent (noun.act)

hypernym	:	legal proceeding, proceeding, proceedings,
definition	:	(law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked (noun.act)

domain category	:	jurisprudence, law,
definition	:	the collection of rules imposed by authority (noun.group)

2. inability to discharge all your debts as they come due (noun.state)

hypernym	:	insolvency,
definition	:	the lack of financial resources (noun.state)

3. a state of complete lack of some abstract property (noun.state)

hypernym	:	failure,
definition	:	lack of success (noun.state)

4. inability to discharge all your debts as they come due (noun.state)

derivation	:	bankrupt, break, ruin, smash,
definition	:	reduce to bankruptcy (verb.possession)

derivation	:	fail,
definition	:	become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close (verb.possession)

derivation	:	bankrupt, break, ruin, smash,
definition	:	reduce to bankruptcy (verb.possession)

derivation	:	fail,
definition	:	become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close (verb.possession)