Polyglot Dictionary

faillite

/fa.jit/

la noun B1

le (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain Financial Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
les faillites

Meaning

  1. bankruptcy

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

banqueroute

Banqueroute implies fraudulent or criminally mismanaged bankruptcy; faillite is the general legal term for insolvency, with no implication of wrongdoing.

Similar in other languages

German

Bankrott

Bankrott is the German word for the same thing — both mean "bankruptcy."

German

Konkurs

Konkurs is the German word for the same thing — both mean "bankruptcy."

Spanish

bancarrota

bancarrota is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "bankruptcy."

Practice

1 What does faillite mean?

2 Fill the gap: L'entreprise a fait ___ l'année dernière.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches faillite?

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