Collocations withbankruptcy

These are words often used in combination withbankruptcy.

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bankruptcy case
The review will encompass all relevant legislative provisions and bankruptcy case law impacting on the rights to a bankrupt's pension.
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bankruptcy estate
For reasons which are not now clear, similar provisions have never applied to bankruptcy estate funds.
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bankruptcy filing
Although the bankruptcy filing missed the deadline, many dealers honored the trades they made in the special session.
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bankruptcy process
The legalities involved in the bankruptcy process, the estate and the process of divorce could come into conflict.
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brink of bankruptcy
Some of the firms that were on the brink of bankruptcy will default and leave the market, and the surviving firms will curtail investment and production.
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declared bankruptcy
Eight banks were involved, four of which have declared bankruptcy, and we are waiting for the others to do so as well.
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edge of bankruptcy
Another thing they claimed was that we had brought the country to the edge of bankruptcy and that the country was almost insolvent.
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federal bankruptcy
Merchants and manufacturers desired a federal bankruptcy law because three features of state collection laws made collecting on bad debts difficult.
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moral bankruptcy
Reductionism about personal identity, that is, would inevitably result in moral bankruptcy.
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near bankruptcy
All they did was to hit the country into near bankruptcy.
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on the verge of bankruptcy
After 18 years in business he $ had some unfortunate losses and was on the verge of bankruptcy in 1791.
From theCambridge English Corpus
personal bankruptcy
But even for those supposedly insured, medical costs are now the leading cause of personal bankruptcy.
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