Meaning

3 senses
  1. Unable to pay one's bills as they fall due.

    an insolvent debtor

    insolvent, zahlungsunfähig

    неплатёжеспосо́бныйneplatjožesposóbnyj

    неплатоспромо́жнийneplatospromóžnyj

  2. Owing more than one has in assets.

  3. Not sufficient to pay all the debts of the owner.

    an insolvent estate

More definitions
  • unable to meet or discharge financial obligations

Examples

4 sentences
  1. The company will soon be insolvent.

    deDas Unternehmen wird bald zahlungsunfähig sein.

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  2. When it comes to the crunch, our company will become insolvent.

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  3. He was declared insolvent.

    ruОн был объявлен банкротом.

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  4. Investigators found that the company had continued to trade while insolvent in the months leading up to its collapse.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
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Forms

more insolvent, most insolvent
Comparativemore insolvent Lesson
Superlativemost insolvent Lesson

regular

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

2 related words
Relatedinsolvency

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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