insolvency

insolvency

English

Etymology

insolvent +‎ -cy

Noun

insolvency (countable and uncountable, plural insolvencies)

1. 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.

   The company faces insolvency.

2. Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner.

   the insolvency of an estate

3. The condition of having more debts than assets.

Antonyms

• solvency

Translations

the condition of being insolvent

Arabic: إِعْسَار‎ m (ʾiʿsār), إِعْسَار مَالِيّ‎ m (ʾiʿsār māliyy) Bulgarian: неплатежоспособност (bg) f (neplatežosposóbnost) Chinese: Mandarin: 無力償還, 无力偿还 (wúlì chánghuán) Czech: insolvence (cs) f, platební neschopnost f (condition of being insolvent) Danish: insolvens c Esperanto: nesolventeco Finnish: maksukyvyttömyys (fi) French: insolvabilité (fr) f German: Insolvenz (de) f, Zahlungsunfähigkeit (de) f Hungarian: fizetőképtelenség, fizetésképtelenség Italian: insolvenza (it)

Japanese: 支払不能 (しはらいふのう, shiharai-funō) Korean: 지불 불능 (jibul bulleung), 채무 초과 (chaemu chogwa), 파산 (ko) (pasan) Manx: neuhooghid m Maori: pēkeraputanga Norwegian: Bokmål: insolvens m Nynorsk: insolvens m Portuguese: insolvência (pt) f Russian: неплатёжеспосо́бность (ru) f (neplatjožesposóbnostʹ), несостоя́тельность (ru) f (nesostojátelʹnostʹ) Spanish: insolvencia (es) f Swedish: insolvens (sv) c