bankrupt cart
A one-horse chaise.
" No, no, I was too prudent when I was young to risk the expenses of a bankrupt cart, and now I am old I am too wise to attempt the difficult art of driving one."
adj
In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent.
a bankrupt merchant
"How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly."
Destitute of, or wholly lacking a good quality, value, etc. one should possess or once possessed.
a morally bankrupt politician
a creatively bankrupt endeavor
verb
To force into bankruptcy.
The cost of the Mendip line had, however, bankrupted the S.D.R. [Somerset & Dorset Railway], and it was leased to the two larger companies for 999 years in 1875, and named the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway.
to get placed last in Tycoon with the bankruptcy rule
noun
One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person; a bankruptee.
A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.