Bankruptcy

(noun.) a legal process intended to insure equality among the creditors of a corporation declared to be insolvent.

(noun.) inability to discharge all your debts as they come due; 'the company had to declare bankruptcy'; 'fraudulent loans led to the failure of many banks'.

(noun.) a state of complete lack of some abstract property; 'spiritual bankruptcy'; 'moral bankruptcy'; 'intellectual bankruptcy'.

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• If I did as you wish me to do, I should be bankrupt in a month; and would my bankruptcy put bread into your hungry children's mouths? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Yes--poverty, misery, bankruptcy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• His name had been proclaimed as a defaulter on the Stock Exchange, and his bankruptcy and commercial extermination had followed. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• In 1889 the company went into bankruptcy and operations were suspended until the new Panama Canal Company was organized in 1894. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Bankruptcy is, perhaps, the greatest and most humiliating calamity which can befal an innocent man. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• So sudden and so great a bankruptcy, we should in the present times be apt to imagine, must have occasioned a very violent popular clamour. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• All her lies and her schemes, and her selfishness and her wiles, all her wit and genius had come to this bankruptcy. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• They declared him at the Stock Exchange; he was absent from his house of business: his bills were protested: his act of bankruptcy formal. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The old man walked very slowly and told a number of ancient histories about himself and his poor Bessy, his former prosperity, and his bankruptcy. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Bankruptcy may come when it lists. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Two or three great bankruptcies in a mercantile town, will bring many houses to sale, which must be sold for what can be got for them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Bankruptcies are most frequent in the most hazardous trades. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But if the common returns were sufficient for all this, bankruptcies would not be more frequent in these than in other trades. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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