English
Etymology
From bankrupt + -cy, replacing earlier bankruptship.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbæŋ.kɹʌp(t).si/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈbæŋk.ɹʌp(t).si/, [ˈbɛːŋk.ɹʌp(t).si]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈbæŋ.kɹɐp(t).si/, /ˈbæŋ.kɹap(t).si/
Noun
bankruptcy (countable and uncountable, plural bankruptcies)
- (finance, law) A legally declared or recognized condition of insolvency of a person or organization.
The company ended up filing for bankruptcy.
1956 May, “Transport in Ulster”, in Railway Magazine, page 279:He declared that these drastic steps would undoubtedly inconvenience a good many people, but the alternative was bankruptcy of the Ulster Transport Authority and the breakdown of public transport services.
Derived terms
Translations
legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency
- Afrikaans: bankrot, insolvent
- Albanian: falimentim (sq) m
- Arabic: إِفْلَاس (ar) m (ʔiflās)
- Armenian: սնանկություն (hy) (snankutʻyun)
- Basque: porrot
- Belarusian: банкру́цтва n (bankrúctva), банкро́цтва n (bankróctva)
- Bengali: দেউলিয়া (bn) (deuliẏa)
- Breton: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: фали́т (bg) m (falít), банкру́т (bg) m (bankrút), несъстоя́телност (bg) f (nesǎstojátelnost)
- Burmese: ဒေဝါလီခံခြင်း (dewalihkamhkrang:)
- Catalan: fallida (ca) f
- Cherokee: ᏗᎵᏍᏆᎳᏍᏗᏱ (dilisqualasdiyi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 破產 / 破产 (zh) (pòchǎn)
- Cornish: bankskwattyans m
- Czech: úpadek (cs) m, bankrot (cs) m, konkurz m
- Danish: konkurs c (legal), betalingsstandsning c (legal, cesession of payment to creditors), fallit c, bankerot c
- Dutch: faillissement (nl) n, bankroet (nl) n, failliet (nl) n, faling (nl) f, surseance van betaling m or f
- Esperanto: bankroto
- Estonian: pankrot
- Finnish: konkurssi (fi), vararikko (fi)
- French: faillite (fr) f, banqueroute (fr) f
- Friulian: faliment, bancjerote f
- Galician: bancarrota f, quebra f, creba f
- Georgian: ბანკროტობა (banḳroṭoba)
- German: Bankrott (de) m, Pleite (de) f, Konkurs (de) m
- Greek: πτώχευση (el) f (ptóchefsi), χρεωκοπία (el) f (chreokopía)
- Hebrew: פְּשִׁיטַת־רֶגֶל (he) f (pshitat-régel)
- Hindi: दिवाला (hi) m (divālā), दिवालियापन m (divāliyāpan)
- Hungarian: csőd (hu)
- Icelandic: gjaldþrot (is) n
- Ido: bankroto (io)
- Indonesian: bangkrut (id), kebangkrutan (id)
- Irish: féimheacht f
- Italian: bancarotta (it) f
- Japanese: 破産 (ja) (はさん, hasan), 破綻 (ja) (はたん, hatan), 倒産 (ja) (とうさん, tōsan)
- Kazakh: банкроттық (bankrottyq)
- Khmer: ធនក្ស័យ (thĕəʼnĕəkksay)
- Korean: 파산(破産) (ko) (pasan)
- Kyrgyz: банкроттук (bankrottuk)
- Ladino: falimento m
- Lao: ການລົ້ມລະລາຍ (lo) (kān lom la lāi)
- Latin: dēcoctiō f
- Latvian: bankrots m
- Lithuanian: bankrotas (lt) m
- Macedonian: банкро́т m (bankrót)
- Malay: kemuflisan (ms)
- Manx: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: pēkerapu, pēkeraputanga
- Norman: banqueroute f, d'sastre m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: konkurs m
- Nynorsk: konkurs m
- Occitan: bancarota (oc) f, falhida (oc) f
- Ottoman Turkish: افلاس (iflâs)
- Persian: ورشکستگی (fa) (varšekastegi)
- Polish: bankructwo (pl) n, plajta (pl) f, upadłość (pl) f, niewypłacalność (pl) f
- Portuguese: falência (pt) f, bancarrota (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਦਿਵਾਲ਼ਾ m (divāḷā)
- Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: faliment (ro) n
- Russian: банкро́тство (ru) n (bankrótstvo), несостоя́тельность (ru) f (nesostojátelʹnostʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: briseadh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сте̏ча̄ј m
- Roman: stȅčāj (sh) m
- Slovak: bankrot m, úpadok m, konkurz m
- Slovene: stečaj m
- Spanish: bancarrota (es) f, quiebra (es) f, falencia (es) f
- Swahili: ufilisi
- Swedish: konkurs (sv) c
- Tagalog: kiyebra
- Tajik: шикаст (šikast)
- Telugu: దివాళా తీయు (divāḷā tīyu)
- Thai: การล้มละลาย (th) (gaan-lóm-lá-laai)
- Turkish: iflas (tr)
- Ukrainian: банкру́тство (uk) n (bankrútstvo), банкро́тство (uk) n (bankrótstvo)
- Urdu: دیوالیہ پن m
- Uzbek: bankrotlik (uz)
- Vietnamese: phá sản (vi) (破產)
- Welsh: methdaliad m
- Yiddish: באַנקראָטירונג f (bankrotirung)
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