All 5 Uses of
bankrupt
in
The Souls of Black Folk
- Twenty thousand bales of ginned cotton went yearly to England, New and Old; and men that came there bankrupt made money and grew rich.†
Chpt 7 *
- Moreover, the system is bound to bankrupt the tenant.†
Chpt 8
- Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement and bankruptcy of the series of savings banks chartered by the Nation for their especial aid.†
Chpt 2
- A marvellous deal of style their factor put on, with his servants and coach-and-six; so much so that the concern soon landed in inextricable bankruptcy.†
Chpt 7
- The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.†
Chpt 8
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