Crossword-Solution: INSOLVENCY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Insolvency | n. | 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; as, a merchant's insolvency. |
| Insolvency | n. | Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner; as, the insolvency of an estate. |
We have 40 clues for the answer “INSOLVENCY”
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| running short | 1 answer |
| ILL-success | 1 answer |
| Feared red state | 1 answer |
| ACCOUNT owing | 3 answers |
| Lady Poverty | 5 answers |
| impecuniosity | 5 answers |
| inability to pay | 7 answers |
| Breaking down? | 8 answers |
| subsistence level | 13 answers |
| ASCETICISM | 15 answers |
| low water | 16 answers |
| Red state? | 21 answers |
| Back Street | 26 answers |
| Penury | 35 answers |
| poorness | 35 answers |
| neediness | 35 answers |
| impecuniousness | 35 answers |
| patchiness | 37 answers |
| beggarliness | 38 answers |
| Indigence | 39 answers |
| dispossession | 39 answers |
| DEBT ___ | 39 answers |
| "Bankruptcy" | 39 answers |
| impoverishment | 40 answers |
| privation | 40 answers |
| destitution | 43 answers |
| scarceness | 44 answers |
| indebtedness | 47 answers |
| Arrears | 50 answers |
| DEBIT ___ | 53 answers |
| paucity | 57 answers |
| shortfall | 58 answers |
| Scarcity | 61 answers |
| Poverty | 61 answers |
| undercurrent | 65 answers |
| Dearth | 65 answers |
| Misery | 69 answers |
| deficit | 70 answers |
| "Want ___?" | 79 answers |
| Denial | 80 answers |
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Sentences with INSOLVENCY (5)
She had never been so near the brink of insolvency; but she could at least manage to meet her weekly hotel bill, and having settled the heaviest of her previous debts out of the money she had received from Trenor, she had a still fair margin of credit to go upon.
But Baranhov had fourteen years more of good service in him, and rescued the Company from insolvency again and again, nor ever played into the hands of marauding foreigners; with brain on fire he was shrewder than the soberest.
Some people said he had speculated unfortunately in railways, others that he was being bled by one of the most insatiable members of her profession; and to every report of threatened insolvency Beaufort replied by a fresh extravagance: the building of a new row of orchid-houses, the purchase of a new string of race-horses, or the addition of a new Meissonnier or Cabanel to his picture-gallery.
Price to the attendant, who in dress and general appearance looked something between a bankrupt glazier, and a drover in a state of insolvency; ‘and a glass of brandy- and-water, Crookey, d’ye hear? I’m going to write to my father, and I must have a stimulant, or I shan’t be able to pitch it strong enough into the old boy.’ At this facetious speech, the young boy, it is almost needless to say, was fairly convulsed.
His insolvency was relieved by a commutation, or indulgence: a year of penance was appreciated at twenty-six solidi 24 of silver, about four pounds sterling, for the rich; at three solidi, or nine shillings, for the indigent: and these alms were soon appropriated to the use of the church, which derived, from the redemption of sins, an inexhaustible source of opulence and dominion.
Quotes with INSOLVENCY (3)
We experience [procrastination] as fear. But fear of what? Fear of the consequences of following our heart. Fear of bankruptcy, fear of poverty, fear of insolvency. Fear of groveling when we try to make it on our own, and of groveling when we give up and come crawling back to where we started. Fear of being selfish, of being rotten wives or disloyal husbands; fear of failing to support our families, of sacrificing their dreams for ours. Fear of betraying our race, our 'hood, …
people around me, problem around me, depression around me, thieves around me this is not literature or poetry ! this is my insolvency ! you can solve them try try try until they die !
Social Security and Medicare are necessary safety nets, but they are nearing insolvency as fewer pay in, more take out, and more take out more.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2013).