bại sản

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Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Bankrupt, ruined: Describes a state of complete financial failure where a person or business cannot pay their debts and has lost their assets.
   • Figuratively, utterly failed: Can describe a situation or endeavor that has failed completely and disastrously.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Công ty đó đã tuyên bố bại sản. (That company has declared bankruptcy.)
  • Sau trận hỏa hoạn, gia đình họ gần như bại sản. (After the fire, their family was nearly ruined.)
  • Kế hoạch của họ đã hoàn toàn bại sản. (Their plan was a complete failure.)

Advanced Usage

• "khuynh gia bại sản": An idiom meaning "to ruin one's family fortune" or "to bring one's family to ruin." It describes causing the complete financial and social downfall of one's household.
  • Cờ bạc khiến anh ta khuynh gia bại sản. (Gambling caused him to bring his family to ruin.)

Variants and Related Words

• Phá sản (v/n): To go bankrupt; bankruptcy. This is the more common legal and economic term.
  • Công ty đang trên bờ vực phá sản. (The company is on the verge of bankruptcy.)
• Sạt nghiệp: A synonym meaning to lose one's fortune or business.

Synonyms

• Vỡ nợ: To be insolvent, to go broke.
• Khánh kiệt: Impoverished, destitute (often from losing wealth).

Related Idioms

• "bại sản lưu manh": A historical term referring to a "bankrupt rogue," describing someone who, after financial ruin, turns to dishonest or villainous activities.
  • (Note: This is a compound term listed here as a related idiom, not as a direct definition of 'bại sản').

Học thuật

adjective

1. Ruined
   • khuynh gia bại sản
     To be runious