bankruptcy judge
noun [C] LAW, FINANCEDefinition
› a judge (= person in charge of a court) who deals with situations in which a business or a person becomes unable to pay their debts, and is officially bankrupt: The pay program will have to be approved by creditors and the bankruptcy judge.
(Definition of bankruptcy judge noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
Browse the Thesaurus
Our dictionaries
Browse the Dictionary
Word of the Day
throw caution to the wind/winds
to do something without worrying about the risk or negative results
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
