noun
insolvency, failure, financial loss or ruin, nonpayment, defaulting, repudiation, overdraft, defalcation, liquidation, chapter 11, economic death, pauperism, destitution, indigence, privation, distress, straitened circumstances, beggary, impecuniosity, ruin, ruination, going to the wall*.
Antonyms solvency, prosperity*, soundness.
See bankruptcy in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
The condition of being financially insolvent:
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