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to broke
adjective
Lacking money; bankrupt
Exact(25)
I was close to broke.
In fact, Lowe was pretty close to broke.
He's "allergic to broke," he said, and he has a family (two kids), a mortgage.
But what Pomerantz meant was that Chamberlain, without really intending to, broke stylistic and racial barriers in professional basketball.
The nation, which is close to broke, spends over a quarter of its GDP on the fuel and pays colossal subsidies to keep energy bills affordable.
Later she has to start "selling stock" because the house has "taken all [her] money"; eventually she is "close to broke".
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THE merger in 1997 of Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter Discover created a banking-to-broking giant that was, for much of the following eight years, as dysfunctional as it was sprawling.
But you don't have to go broke to dine here.
Most likely to: Appeal to 2 broke dudes.
It's a humiliation for the recipient country, which appears to be broke, reduced to panhandling.
"Every firm had its own rules about how to co-broke, what to co-broke and when to co-broke," said Frederick W. Peters, president of Ashforth Warburg Real Estate.
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