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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bankrupt/#m1)

2) To bankrupt someone is to make them bankrupt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bankrupt/#m2)

3) (informal) Bankrupt of something means having none of it left: bankrupt of ideas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bankrupt/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bankrupt/#x1)
- His spending nearly bankrupted the family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bankrupt/#x2)
- In Monopoly, you lose when you go bankrupt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bankrupt/#x3)
- The company was declared bankrupt by the court. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bankrupt/#x4)
- The war left the country bankrupt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bankrupt/#x5)
- The writer felt bankrupt of ideas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bankrupt/#x6)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bankrupt/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.