bankruptとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbæŋ.kɹəpt/, /ˈbæŋ.kɹʌpt/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbæŋk.ɹəpt/, /ˈbæŋk.ɹʌpt/
• 韻: -æŋkɹəpt, -æŋkɹʌpt

形容詞

bankrupt (comparative more bankrupt, superlative most bankrupt)

1. (finance) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.
   • 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, p. 141:

     "How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked.
     "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly."

   a bankrupt merchant

2. Having been legally declared insolvent.
3. Destitute of, or wholly lacking (something once possessed, または something one should possess).

   a morally bankrupt politician

   • 1715, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals:

     bankrupt in gratitude

同意語

• See Thesaurus:impoverished

派生語

• bankrupt cart
• bankruptcy
• go bankrupt

参考

• defunct
• illiquid
• insolvent

動詞

bankrupt (三人称単数 現在形 bankrupts, 現在分詞 bankrupting, 過去形および過去分詞形 bankrupted)

1. (transitive) To force into bankruptcy.

名詞

bankrupt (複数形 bankrupts)

1. One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person.
2. (UK, law, obsolete) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.