bankruptcies
- 1Plural of bankruptcy.
The recession triggered a wave of corporate bankruptcies across the region.
Court records showed three separate bankruptcies tied to the same investor.
Note
The countable side of the noun at work: each plural counts separate cases, one company's or one person's legally declared insolvency. The condition itself stays uncountable, so a firm faces bankruptcy or is driven into bankruptcy, never into bankruptcies. The plural appears when cases are tallied or compared. Its spelling follows the usual consonant-plus-y pattern: the y becomes i before -es.
bankruptcies is a form of bankruptcy
bankruptcy, noun: A legally declared or recognized condition in which a person or organization is unable to pay its debts. Full entry
- Forms
- bankruptcybankruptcies plural
- Spelling
- bankruptcy → bankruptcies: change y to i, add -es
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