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Discover LudwigThe phrase “bankrupt for” is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation where an individual or business is financially insolvent and unable to pay off its debts. For example, “The company was bankrupt for two years before it was able to recover.”.
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He proposed targeting the newly bankrupt for offers of credit.
"You should go bankrupt for what you love," he says.
Though solvent, the firm was declared bankrupt for not paying a 1999 dividend.
In 1692, after prospering for a while, Defoe went bankrupt for £17,000.
Was Baptist Medical Center, now defunct, morally bankrupt for having taken money from John Gotti?
"We were functionally bankrupt for all of 1996," Mr. Betty said.
Not long before he died, I asked him how much he went bankrupt for.
In 2009 Reid was forced to sell his £1m vinyl collection after being declared bankrupt for the second time.
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The Obama Administration recently decided, mercifully, to forgive the debt of people who had gone to Corinthian Colleges, a bankrupt for-profit.
The Education Department faces more than 1,000 such claims from former students of Corinthian Colleges Inc., the bankrupt for-profit chain that once ranked among the nation's largest with more than 120 colleges and more than 110,000 students.
A first descriptive check can be found in Table 8, where we split our sub-sample of distressed firms into bankrupt and non-bankrupt for each size class and each country.
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