Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The condition of being insolvent.
- noun An instance of being insolvent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
condition of beinginsolvent ; the state or condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is unable to pay hisdebts as they fall due, or in the usual course of trade and business; as, amerchant 's insolvency. - noun
Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner; as, the insolvency of anestate . - noun The condition of having more
debts thanassets .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the lack of financial resources
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Examples
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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.
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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.
Matthew Yglesias » Obama Comes Out Swinging in Weekly Address 2009
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A plan that assumes insolvency is making the same mistake as a plan that assumes banks are illiquid.
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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.
Matthew Yglesias » The Other Public Sector Pension Problem 2010
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Our march toward government insolvency is a complex historical event with multiple causes.
From Musgrave to Shaviro, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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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.
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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.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More Musing on Liquidity and Solvency Distinctions in Sovereign Debt Crises 2010
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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.
Grading the President in Macro, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But in either case, insolvency is a condition of an institution, such as a bank or financial institution, discovered or made in the present.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More Musing on Liquidity and Solvency Distinctions in Sovereign Debt Crises 2010
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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.
From Musgrave to Shaviro, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
jmjarmstrong commented on the word insolvency
JM has just heard that the local marine glue manufacturer’s plans have come unstuck and it seems likely to end in insolvency.
June 15, 2011