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Bank failure   /bæŋk fˈeɪljər/   Listen
Bank failure

noun
1.
The inability of a bank to meet its credit obligations.





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"Bank failure" Quotes from Famous Books



... love and encouragement, closing with the news of the bank failure and consequent loss of the little fortune with which he had planned to do so many things. Presently looking up he said, in a ...
— The Gaunt Gray Wolf - A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob • Dillon Wallace
... of "Sunnyside" find the dead body of Arnold Armstrong on the circular staircase. Following the murder a bank failure is announced. Around these two events is woven a plot of ...
— Eve to the Rescue • Ethel Hueston
... Julia, and, with the consent of his wife, took his father to live with them. Then Alfred determined to pay in full all who had been ruined by the bank failure, and in time the old bank was reopened with Edward Dodd as managing partner. In the end, no creditor of Richard Hardie was left unpaid. Alfred went in for politics and became an M.P. for Barkington; whence to dislodge him I pity anyone ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VII • Various


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