| 单词 | zombie debtor |
| 释义 | > as lemmaszombie debtor 6. Finance. A failing bank, business, etc., which relies on financial assistance from the government to continue operating. Also: a person who or company which is only able to repay the interest on a debt but not the debt itself. Frequently more fully as zombie bank, zombie debtor, etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > debtor > other types of debtor bankrupt1533 mortgager1607 Alsatian1688 Minter1699 abbey laird1700 judgment debtor1749 peon1826 poor debtor1831 overdrawer1906 zombie1985 1985 Financial Times 28 Sept. (Weekend FT section) 1/1 Large parts of the oil industry, the zombies of the savings, banking and insurance world (still stumbling along but long since dead in terms of true solvency). 1986 Amer. Banker (Nexis) 8 Apr. 1 The fact that ‘zombie’ thrifts are allowed to survive creates serious problems for other, healthier thrifts as well as for bank intermediaries. The zombies tend to bid up the price of deposits, victimizing their neighbors. 1998 Washington Post 1 Dec. d3/1 He cut short-term rates sharply in 1990 to bail out Citibank and other zombie banks that were awash in bad loans but were too big to be allowed to fail. 2012 Daily Echo (Nexis) 25 Apr. One in six people was a ‘zombie debtor’, only able to service the interest on their debts and not reduce them. < as lemmas |
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