Insolvency

Word INSOLVENCY
Character 10
Hyphenation in sol ven cy
Pronunciations [ɪnˈsɒlvn̩si]

Definitions and meanings of "Insolvency"

What do we mean by insolvency?

The condition of being insolvent. noun

An instance of being insolvent. noun

The condition of being insolvent; want of means or of sufficiency for the discharge of all debts or obligations; bankruptcy; failure of resources: as, the insolvency of a person or of an estate. noun

A proceeding for the application of all the assets to the payment of debts by judicial authority: as, a petition in insolvency. noun

The condition of being insolvent; the state or condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is unable to pay his debts as they fall due, or in the usual course of trade and business. noun

Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner. noun

See Insolvent law under Insolvent, a. noun

The condition of being insolvent; the state or condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is unable to pay his debts as they fall due, or in the usual course of trade and business; as, a merchant's insolvency. noun

Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner; as, the insolvency of an estate. noun

The condition of having more debts than assets. noun

The lack of financial resources noun

The condition of being insolvent; the state or condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is unable to pay his debts as they fall due, or in the usual course of trade and business.

Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner.

The condition of having more debts than assets.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Insolvency

The word "insolvency" in example sentences

With some amendments, the decree ­retrospectively applied DIFC insolvency legislation to the affairs of Dubai World, giving the tribunal jurisdiction to supervise the restructuring and any ­insolvency. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the classic bank run, the information gap becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of insolvency; in other cases, insolvency is discovered, not made, as information becomes available and indicates that the institution is genuinely not solvent. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A plan that assumes insolvency is making the same mistake as a plan that assumes banks are illiquid. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The only way the insurer can guarantee a lifetime income without the risk of insolvency is by investing the premiums in ultra-safe instruments with a tiny rate of return and offering only a very small annual payment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Our march toward government insolvency is a complex historical event with multiple causes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Considering the unfunded entitlements coming due in decades ahead, and considering the ownership of the Federal debt by foreign interests, governments and others, it seems to me that US insolvency is a very real possibility, unless of course we cut out huge chunks of the government and pay only the entitlements and the interest on our debt. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The evidence that the pitchers of woe about pending national insolvency are actually more worried about entitlements than insolvency is pretty clear to me: While entitlements are totally driving the long-term fiscal crisis, they have not a word of criticism for entitlements. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There are no easy answers here, but the guiding principle left by the Founders that bankruptcy be used to quickly and finally resolve insolvency is instructive. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But in either case, insolvency is a condition of an institution, such as a bank or financial institution, discovered or made in the present. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Having worked on fiscal reform in several countries (including my home country, Argentina), I think that Shaviro's view on a march to government insolvency is wrong. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So individual insolvencies are down 2% on the previous three months and that is worth the headline "Reduction in insolvency figures", whilst company liquidations are up by nearly six times that amount and that is worth just one line. ❋ Not A Sheep (2008)

DNC spox Brad Woodhouse rips the GOP for lying about Social Security's long-term insolvency, but seems to suggest that the program needs to be "tweaked." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Such insolvency is found marked in the very name of Babel: which at once translates and does not translate itself, belongs without belonging to a language and indebts itself as if other. ❋ Mary Kate Hurley (2008)

The BBC are "reporting" that there has been a "Reduction in insolvency figures", well that's the headline. ❋ Not A Sheep (2008)

The report provided more sobering news about the long and short term insolvency of our nation's retirement plans and revealed the problem of funding our nation's entitlement programs is becoming much worse. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Highway Trust Fund is facing a "near-term insolvency crisis." ❋ Unknown (2009)

This would eliminate most of the long-term insolvency, but do so in a manner that leads to rapidly rising real benefits for people with low incomes, and more slowly for people with higher incomes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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