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insolvent

[ in-sol-vuhnt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

not solvent; unable to satisfy creditors or discharge liabilities, either because liabilities exceed assets or because of inability to pay debts as they mature.
Synonyms: bankrupt, impoverished, destitute, penniless
pertaining to bankrupt persons or bankruptcy.

insolvent

/ ɪnˈsɒlvənt /

(of a person, company, etc) having insufficient assets to meet debts and liabilities; bankrupt
of or relating to bankrupts or bankruptcy

First recorded in 1585–95; in- ³ + solvent

For more than a year now, little Greece has been insolvent after its politicians recklessly piled up $467 billion in debt.

"Your claim is with a hopelessly insolvent company," he told Gettelfinger.

The truth, as many experts have maintained, is that the leading banks are insolvent, and have been so for more than a year.

As we have seen over the last 18 months, the latter is what near- insolvent banks do.

And the reality is, if the subprime securities are truly trash, most of the big banks are troubled and some are insolvent.

Now men laughed at him, pointed to him with their fingers, and made their children mock and hoot the penniless insolvent.

Unless the maker of a note is insolvent, a bank can never pay the unmatured note of a depositor.

Sganerelle demands the payment of his wages from his henceforth insolvent master.

Old Strang died insolvent; he used to gamble, had ruined himself without saying a word.

And Rembrandt died insolvent, while Sir Godfrey amassed a fortune!

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