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Insolvent vs Broke - What's the difference?

insolvent | broke |

As adjectives the difference between insolvent and broke

is that insolvent is unable to pay one's bills as they fall due while broke is (informal) lacking money; bankrupt.

As nouns the difference between insolvent and broke

is that insolvent is (legal) one who is insolvent; an insolvent debtor while broke is (papermaking) paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.

As a verb broke is

(break) or broke can be to broker; to transact business for another.

insolvent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unable to pay one's bills as they fall due.
    • an insolvent debtor
  • Owing more than one has in assets.
  • Not sufficient to pay all the debts of the owner.
    • an insolvent estate

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * solvent

    Derived terms

    * insolvency

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (legal) One who is insolvent; an insolvent debtor.
    • (Bouvier)

    Usage notes

    * In England, before 1861, especially applied to persons who were not traders. ----

    broke

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Lacking money; bankrupt
  • (informal) Broken.

    • Synonyms

    * boracic (UK rhyming slang), skint (UK slang), stony-broke (qualifier, UK slang') * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (papermaking) Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.
  • *1880 , James Dunbar, The Practical Papermaker: A Complete Guide to the Manufacture of Paper , page 12:
  • *:If the broke accumulates, a larger proportion can be used in making coloured papers, otherwise the above quantity is sufiicient.
  • *1914 , The World's Paper Trade Review, Volume 62 , page 204:
  • *:Presumably, most of the brokes and waste were used up in this manner, and during the manufacture of the coarse stuff little or no attention was paid to either cleanliness or colour.
  • *2014 September 25, Judge Diane Wood, NCR Corp. v. George A. Whiting Paper Co. :
  • *:These mills purchase broke from other paper mills through middlemen and use it to make paper.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (break)
  • (archaic, or, poetic)
  • * 1999 October 3, J. Stewart Burns, "Mars University", Futurama , season 2, episode 2, Fox Broadcasting Company
    • Guenther: I guess the hat must have broke my fall.
  • # (nautical) Demoted, deprived of a commission.
  • He was broke and rendered unfit to serve His Majesty at sea.

    • Verb

    (brok)
  • To broker; to transact business for another.
    • (Brome)
  • (obsolete) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.
  • * Fanshawe
    • We do want a certain necessary woman to broke between them, Cupid said.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And brokes with all that can in such a suit / Corrupt the tender honour of a maid.

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