Definition

1. Verb:
   • To be ruined (financially/business-wise): To suffer a complete financial collapse, losing all capital and assets, typically as a result of failed business ventures or investments.
   • To go bankrupt / to be wiped out: To reach a state of total business failure and insolvency.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Công ty đầu tư sai lầm và đã bị sạt nghiệp. (The company made a wrong investment and was ruined.)
  • Sau trận dịch bệnh, nhiều hộ kinh doanh nhỏ lẻ sạt nghiệp. (After the epidemic, many small business households went bankrupt.)
  • Ông ấy sạt nghiệp vì cờ bạc. (He was financially wiped out because of gambling.)

Advanced Usage

• The term carries a strong connotation of a fall from a previously established financial or business position. It implies losing not just money, but one's entire livelihood and professional standing.
• It is often used in the passive voice with "bị" (to be subjected to) as in "bị sạt nghiệp," emphasizing the victimhood or the sudden, devastating nature of the collapse.

Variants and Related Words

• Phá sản (v): To go bankrupt, to become insolvent (a more formal, legal, or general term for bankruptcy).
• Thua lỗ (v): To incur losses, to operate at a loss (describes the process leading to ruin).
• Lụn bại (v): To decline and fall into ruin (often used for family fortune or lineage over time).

Synonyms

• To be ruined: To be brought to financial destruction.
• To go bust: (Informal) To become bankrupt.
• To be wiped out: To lose all one's money.

Related Idioms

• Trắng tay: To be left empty-handed (can be a result of "sạt nghiệp").
  • Sạt nghiệp, ông ta ra đi trắng tay. (Ruined, he left empty-handed.)
• Mất hết vốn liếng: To lose all capital.
  • Việc kinh doanh thất bát khiến họ mất hết vốn liếng. (The business failure caused them to lose all their capital.)

verb

1. to ruin, to collapse