| 单词 | bankrupt |
| 释义 | bankrupt (bæŋkrʌpt ) Word forms: bankrupts , bankrupting , bankrupted 1. adjective People or organizations that go bankrupt do not have enough money to pay their debts. [business] If the firm cannot sell its products, it will go bankrupt. He was declared bankrupt after failing to pay a £114m loan guarantee. 2. verb To bankrupt a person or organization means to make them go bankrupt. [business] The move to the market nearly bankrupted the firm and its director. [VERB noun] Uninsured people can be bankrupted by big medical bills. [VERB noun] Synonyms: ruin, break, impoverish, make bankrupt 3. countable noun A bankrupt is a person who has been declared bankrupt by a court of law. [business] Synonyms: bankrupt person, debtor, insolvent 4. adjective If you say that something is bankrupt, you are emphasizing that it lacks any value or worth. [emphasis] He really thinks that European civilisation is morally bankrupt. Synonyms: lacking, wanting, deprived, in need Collocations: bankrupt company Lawyers investigating a bankrupt company are therefore freer to make findings public without fear of retaliation by litigants. Globe and Mail At this point, you have a claim against the bankrupt company. Houston Chronicle He took a virtually bankrupt company and made it into a core-focused, consumer-product company. Globe and Mail During his colourful career at this post, he re-organised the company, and brought an ailing and bankrupt company into profit. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When the bankrupt company was abandoned in 1938, the engine was still in service. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Then someone told him that this would bankrupt the country overnight, so he rapidly withdrew his command and nothing has been heard since. Times, Sunday Times This in turn would bankrupt the country overnight. Times, Sunday Times We know for an absolute fact they would bankrupt the country in two years flat. The Sun The riots started after the government refused to agree to the protesters' demand for free university education, saying it would bankrupt the country. Times, Sunday Times Without a revolution, these institutions will bankrupt the country, keep fighting failed wars, start new ones, and hold us in perpetual intellectual subjugation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A trial lasting two hours had found the couple guilty of war crimes and bankrupting the nation. Times, Sunday Times Bonuses for bankrupting the nation are not just an affront. The Sun His clothing budget alone nearly bankrupted the nation. Times, Sunday Times Having inherited a virtually bankrupt state from previous reigns, her frugal policies restored fiscal responsibility. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His enthusiasm for castle-building was such that he bankrupted the state. Times, Sunday Times Unfortunately the project bankrupted the state and was so poorly engineered that it would not hold water. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We are financially bankrupt because we are morally bankrupt. Times, Sunday Times The financially bankrupt organization, despite bailouts, has not been able to emerge from its troubles leading to cancellation of as many as 115 railway services. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The rest are considered financially bankrupt. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The trade union movement of today seems to me to be intellectually bankrupt, and to lack leaders of substance or stature. Times, Sunday Times She found this argument intellectually bankrupt. Times, Sunday Times But it's not original to voice these opinions: dramas about the media always include some broadside against the supposedly venal, intellectually bankrupt world from which they have sprung. Times, Sunday Times We are financially bankrupt because we are morally bankrupt. Times, Sunday Times (2012) So does that make you morally bankrupt too? The Sun (2012) Does she buy into the idea that those born with a silver spoon are morally bankrupt? Times, Sunday Times (2012) The healthy but lazy who claim incapacity benefit are just as morally bankrupt as those benefiting from offshore tax havens. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The infliction of such vast and indiscriminate destruction, difficult even to imagine, would by any standards be morally bankrupt. Times, Sunday Times (2010) He faced a daunting task in reviving the virtually bankrupt club. Times, Sunday Times They are also virtually bankrupt, running a deficit of 410,951. Times, Sunday Times When it ended, the field was a mess and two nations were virtually bankrupt. Times, Sunday Times As recently as 1997, it was virtually bankrupt. Globe and Mail He took a virtually bankrupt company and made it into a core-focused, consumer-product company. Globe and Mail Translations: Chinese: 破产, 破产者, 使破产 Japanese: 破産した, 破産者, 破産させる |
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