bankrupt

«bankrupt» in Mova's school dictionary: bankrupt cannot pay their debts, and a court takes… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective; verb (bankrupt, bankrupts, bankrupted, bankrupting); noun (a bankrupt)

meaning for a pupil

1) (money, law) A person or company that is bankrupt cannot pay their debts, and a court takes control of what they own to pay the people they owe. tree →

2) To bankrupt someone is to make them bankrupt. tree →

3) (informal) Bankrupt of something means having none of it left: bankrupt of ideas. tree →

sense in the lessons

In money lessons, a business goes bankrupt when it owes more than it can ever pay back. In stories, a rich man may go bankrupt and lose his house. Toad spends so wildly on cars that his friends fear for his money. In Monopoly, a player who cannot pay is bankrupt and out of the game.

examples

• The shop went bankrupt and closed. tree →
• His spending nearly bankrupted the family. tree →
• In Monopoly, you lose when you go bankrupt. tree →
• The company was declared bankrupt by the court. tree →
• The war left the country bankrupt. tree →
• The writer felt bankrupt of ideas. tree →

note

Noun: bankruptcy. Phrase: «go bankrupt». In maths, being bankrupt means your debts (what you owe) are bigger than what you own and can pay.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bankrupt» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.