Neuter
faillissement
Meaning
- (neuter) a bankruptcy
- (figuratively, neuter) the demise, the undoing of something or someone
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˌfaː.ji.səˈmɛnt/
Etymology
From earlier faillement, from Middle French faillement, from faillir (“to fail, go bankrupt”). The insertion of -iss- happened in Dutch as a hyperforeignism, and is not found in the French word.
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