bankruptとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈbæŋ.kɹəpt/, /ˈbæŋ.kɹʌpt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈbæŋk.ɹəpt/, /ˈbæŋk.ɹʌpt/
• 韻: -æŋkɹəpt, -æŋkɹʌpt
• ハイフネーション: bank‧rupt

形容詞

bankrupt (comparative more bankrupt, superlative most bankrupt)

1. (finance, of a person, company, etc.) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent. [from 1565]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:impoverished

   a bankrupt merchant

   • 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, page 141:

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

2. (figurative) Destitute of, or wholly lacking a good quality, value, etc. one should possess or once possessed. [from 1567]

   a morally bankrupt politician

   a creatively bankrupt endeavor

   • 1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 80:

     O Julia! I am bankrupt in gratitude! but the time is ſo preſſing, it calls on you for ſo haſty a reſolution.

動詞

bankrupt (third-person singular simple present bankrupts, present participle bankrupting, simple past and past participle bankrupted)

1. (transitive) To force into bankruptcy.
   • 1953 August, David R. Webb, “By Rail to Bournemouth”, in Railway Magazine, page 553:

     The cost of the Mendip line had, however, bankrupted the S.D.R. [Somerset & Dorset Railway], and it was leased to the two larger companies for 999 years in 1875, and named the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway.

2. (card games) to get placed last in Tycoon with the bankruptcy rule

名詞

bankrupt (plural bankrupts)

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

派生語

参考

• defunct
• illiquid
• insolvent

参照

• Michael Quinion (2004), “Bankrupt”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.
• “bankrupt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “bankrupt, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.