- 1無清償能力、無力清償（法律用語。日常常說「破產」，但破產較接近走法院程序的 bankruptcy）
Insolvency is a money word. It names the state of not having enough money to pay what you owe — bills, loans, . A shop, a company, or a person can fall into it. Though actually, people often mix this up with bankruptcy. Insolvency is the money fact: you cannot pay. Bankruptcy is the legal step: a court is involved, and there are rules about what happens next. A company can be in insolvency before it is bankrupt, and sometimes it never goes through that court process at all. You will meet the word in news about businesses, and in law and finance. It is formal. At the table, people just say they ran out of money, or they went bust.
From the word’s history
From insolvent + -cy.
insolvent（無力償債的）加 -cy，指無力償債。
組成insolvent + -cy (the state of). Insolvent itself is in- (not) + solvent (able to pay what you owe).
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
insolvencynoun[ɪnˈsɒlvn̩si]
- 1
businessfinanceThe condition of being insolvent; the state or condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is unable to pay their debts as they fall due, or in the usual course of trade and business.
- The company faces insolvency.
- 2
Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner.
- the insolvency of an estate
- 3
The condition of having more debts than assets.
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