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n.
Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them.
a.
Relating to persons unable to pay their debts.
v. i.
To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount.
a.
Able to pay one's debts; solvent.
n.
The sum owed; debts, collectively.
n.
The condition of being insolvent; the state or condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is unable to pay his debts as they fall due, or in the usual course of trade and business; as, a merchant's insolvency.
a.
Incapable of being paid or discharged, as debts.
v. i.
To run away from one's debts; to decamp.
adv.
Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts.
n.
Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner; as, the insolvency of an estate.
v. t.
Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; goods and buildings are insured against fire or water; persons are insured against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are insured.
n.
The condition of being solvent; ability to pay all just debts; solvency; as, the solvability of a merchant.
n.
A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity.
n.
Inability to pay debts; insolvency.
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Not sufficient to pay all the debts of the owner; as, an insolvent estate.
v. t.
To make white; to give a fair external appearance to; to clear from imputations or disgrace; hence, to clear (a bankrupt) from obligation to pay debts.
n.
The seizure of the property of an individual for the use of the state; particularly applied to the seizure, by a belligerent power, of debts due from its subjects to the enemy.
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Not solvent; not having sufficient estate to pay one's debts; unable to pay one's debts as they fall due, in the ordinary course of trade and business; as, in insolvent debtor.
n.
A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe.
a.
Able or sufficient to pay all just debts; as, a solvent merchant; the estate is solvent.
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