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More words related to bankruptcy

penuriousness
noun. poverty
  • abjection
  • aridity
  • bankruptcy
  • barrenness
  • beggary
  • dearth
  • debt
  • deficiency
  • deficit
  • depletion
  • destitution
  • difficulty
  • distress
  • emptiness
  • exiguity
  • famine
  • hardship
  • impecuniosity
  • impecuniousness
  • impoverishment
  • inadequacy
  • indigence
  • insolvency
  • insufficiency
  • lack
  • meagerness
  • necessitousness
  • necessity
  • need
  • neediness
  • pass
  • paucity
  • pauperism
  • pennilessness
  • penury
  • pinch
  • poorness
  • privation
  • reduction
  • scarcity
  • shortage
  • starvation
  • straits
  • underdevelopment
  • vacancy
  • want

unsuccess
noun. failure
  • abortion
  • bankruptcy
  • bomb
  • botch
  • breakdown
  • bungle
  • bust
  • checkmate
  • collapse
  • decay
  • decline
  • defeat
  • deficiency
  • deficit
  • deterioration
  • downfall
  • failing
  • false step
  • faux pas
  • fiasco
  • flash in the pan
  • flop
  • frustration
  • implosion
  • inadequacy
  • lead balloon
  • lemon
  • loser
  • loss
  • mess
  • misadventure
  • miscarriage
  • misstep
  • nonperformance
  • nonsuccess
  • overthrow
  • rout
  • rupture
  • sinking ship
  • stalemate
  • stoppage
  • total loss
  • turkey
  • unsuccessfulness
  • washout
  • wreck

unsuccessfulness
noun. failure
  • abortion
  • bankruptcy
  • bomb
  • botch
  • breakdown
  • bungle
  • bust
  • checkmate
  • collapse
  • decay
  • decline
  • defeat
  • deficiency
  • deficit
  • deterioration
  • downfall
  • failing
  • false step
  • faux pas
  • fiasco
  • flash in the pan
  • flop
  • frustration
  • implosion
  • inadequacy
  • lead balloon
  • lemon
  • loser
  • loss
  • mess
  • misadventure
  • miscarriage
  • misstep
  • nonperformance
  • nonsuccess
  • overthrow
  • rout
  • rupture
  • sinking ship
  • stalemate
  • stoppage
  • total loss
  • turkey
  • unsuccess
  • washout
  • wreck
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Word Origin & History

bankruptcy 1700, from bankrupt, "probably on the analogy of insolvency, but with -t erroneously retained in spelling, instead of being merged in the suffix ...." [OED].

Example Sentences for bankruptcy

Bankruptcy was not the only art by which Badman piled up his fortune.

“The era of religious influence closes in bankruptcy,” he informs us.

Her business was going to wreck, and bankruptcy seemed impending.

It is only too true that your father stood on the verge of bankruptcy.

The bankruptcy proceedings had exhausted all the laughter there was in it.

The fate of riches is often ruins, but there is no bankruptcy in hope.

He magnified the impending disgrace of bankruptcy and imprisonment.

She accused him of trying to tie them down to a village; he accused her of trying to drive him to bankruptcy.

Extravagance of living is another prolific cause of bankruptcy.

He received me warmly, and told me we had saved him from bankruptcy.

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