Vocabulary Word
Word: insolvent
Definition: bankrupt; lacking money to pay; N. insolvency
Definition: bankrupt; lacking money to pay; N. insolvency
Sentences Containing 'insolvent'
If any of the contributors become bankrupt or insolvent, the collector is obliged to advance his tax; and the whole parish is reimposed next year, in order to reimburse the collector.
At last this document appeared to be got out of the way, somehow; at all events it ceased to be the rock-ahead it had been; and Mrs. Micawber informed me that 'her family' had decided that Mr. Micawber should apply for his release under the Insolvent Debtors Act, which would set him free, she expected, in about six weeks.
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