bankruptcy
bang kruhp see
- n a state of complete lack of some abstract property
spiritual bankruptcy
moral bankruptcy
intellectual bankruptcy - n inability to discharge all your debts as they come due
the company had to declare bankruptcy - n a legal process intended to insure equality among the creditors of a corporation declared to be insolvent
- The high court permits troubled firms to cancel union pacts In most dictionaries, bankruptcy is a polite word for going belly up.
- If GM files for bankruptcy, it may do so in a city far, far away from its employees or suppliers.
- Jeffrey Sauger Bloomberg News Landov GM is headquartered in Detroit and employs more than 53,000 people in Michigan, but in the corporate-bankruptcy system, courts compete for .