All 5 Uses of
bankrupt
in
The Adventures of Augie March
- Sometimes we had the company of Clem or Jimmy, or of Sylvester, the movie bankrupt, who was now flunking out of his engineer's course at Armour Tech and talking about moving away to New York altogether.†
Chpt 5 *
- their frauds, their smart bankruptcies, the fires they had set;†
Chpt 5
- But I'm still in the middle of the summer with him, at the worst of his trouble when he was envenomed with the fear that he'd go bankrupt, and he had to confess to himself, I'm sure, that he was really afraid of the Magnuses, and terrified by what he had taken on himself.†
Chpt 11
- Tambow often had use for us when someone put a piece of business in his way, like lost articles in the post office or distressed goods in a bankruptcy.†
Chpt 3
- Also, many hotels had painting contractors or graft arrangements; controlled by receivers, appointed by the courts, the original corporations in bankruptcy; the receivers were themselves interested in the insurance, plumbing, catering, decorating, bars, concessions, and the rest of the interlocking system.†
Chpt 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(bankrupt as in: company went bankrupt) legally declared to be unable to pay money that is owed
or (informally): the state of having little or no money -
(2)
(bankrupt as in: bankrupt idea) without value or without a particular quality