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单词 bankrupt
释义
bank·rupt (băngkrŭpt, -rəpt)
n.
1. Law A person, business, or organization legally declared insolvent because of inability to pay debts.
2. A person who is totally lacking in a specified resource or quality: an intellectual bankrupt.
adj.
1.
a. Having been legally declared insolvent.
b. Financially ruined; impoverished.
2.
a. Depleted of valuable qualities or characteristics: a morally and ethically bankrupt politician.
b. Totally depleted; destitute: was bankrupt of new ideas.
c. Being in a ruined state: a bankrupt foreign policy.
tr.v. bank·rupt·ed, bank·rupt·ing, bank·rupts
1. To cause to become financially bankrupt.
2. To ruin: an administration that bankrupted its credibility by seeking to manipulate the news.

[French banqueroute, from Italian banca rotta, broken counter (from the practice of breaking the counters of bankrupt bankers) : banca, moneychanger's table; see BANK2 + rotta, feminine of rotto, past participle of rompere, to break (from Latin rumpere; see reup- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots).]
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