bankrupt
Example Sentences
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His predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, had left the nation bankrupt and humiliated, following an eight-year war with neighboring Iraq, one of the deadliest global conflicts of the past century.
The prospect of tariff refunds is the latest opportunity in the world of claims trading, where investors scoop up rights tied to everything from tax refunds to bankrupt companies.
The Kenyan clean cookstove project developer Koko Networks went bankrupt at the end of January, in part because it failed to negotiate a letter of authorization with the government.
It was hugely successful, but we had a flood nine months after we opened, which bankrupted us, theoretically bankrupt, but we were able to climb out.
First Brands Group has been unable to find financing or a buyer to continue most of its companywide operations, the bankrupt auto-parts supplier said as it laid off employees in its aftermarket businesses Monday.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
