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Bankrupt vs Null - What's the difference?

bankrupt | null |

As nouns the difference between bankrupt and null

is that bankrupt is one who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective bankrupt

is in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.

As a verb bankrupt

is to force into bankruptcy.

bankrupt

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.
  • a bankrupt merchant
  • Having been legally declared insolvent.
  • Destitute of, or wholly lacking (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
  • a morally bankrupt politician
  • * Sheridan
  • bankrupt in gratitude
    (Webster 1913)

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * bankruptcy * go bankrupt

    See also

    * defunct * illiquid * insolvent

    Verb

  • To force into bankruptcy.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person.
  • (UK, legal, obsolete) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
  • (Blackstone)

    References

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    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----