Was heißt »Plei­te« auf Englisch?

Das Substantiv Plei­te lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • bankruptcy
  • bust
  • collapse

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Seine Firma ging Pleite und zu allem Übel hatte er einen Verkehrsunfall.

His company went bankrupt, and to make matters worse, he met with a traffic accident.

Dieser gebrauchte Kühlschrank war eine echte Pleite.

That used refrigerator was a real dog.

Das Unternehmen hat wegen der Wirtschaftskrise Pleite gemacht.

The company folded because of the economic crisis.

Synonyme

Aus:
end
Bruch­lan­dung:
crash landing
Crash:
crash
De­ba­kel:
debacle
Fi­as­ko:
fiasco
flop
Flop:
flop
In­sol­venz:
insolvency
Miss­er­folg:
bad success
failure
ill success
Rohr­kre­pie­rer:
barrel burst
squib load
Rück­schlag:
kickback
setback
Ru­in:
ruin
Schei­tern:
failure
Schiff­bruch:
shipwreck
Schlap­pe:
defeat
Ver­lust:
loss
Ver­sa­gen:
failure

Antonyme

Er­folg:
success
Sol­venz:
solvency

Englische Beispielsätze

  • The spectre of bankruptcy has loomed over Tom's firm for some time.

  • The threat of bankruptcy has been hanging over Tom's firm for some time.

  • Tom's company has been haunted by the spectre of bankruptcy for some time.

  • The firm was heading for bankruptcy.

  • What caused the bridge to collapse?

  • One of my bike's spokes has bust.

  • One of the spokes on my bike has bust.

  • The whole thing is about to collapse.

  • The empire will collapse.

  • Many supernovae occur when massive stars run out of fuel, rapidly collapse under their own weight, and then explode because of strong shock waves that propel out of their interiors.

  • The earthquake caused many houses to collapse.

  • The house is in danger of collapse.

  • Two Canadian students were almost killed by the collapse of the bridge.

  • A catastrophic dam collapse in Laos has left hundreds missing and thousands homeless with at least several feared dead.

  • The roof is about to collapse.

  • The woman has suffered from a collapse, because she ate meat from a water buffalo.

  • Greece is taking radical measures to prevent a collapse of its financial system.

  • Will the entire financial system collapse soon?

  • The Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

  • It's not a matter of if the bridge will collapse, but when.

Übergeordnete Begriffe

Leis­tung:
performance

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Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: Pleite. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: Pleite. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 824596, 1924051, 11295136, 11205311, 11200273, 11200271, 10746133, 10685609, 10614775, 10614774, 10320564, 10143628, 10070470, 9705079, 9152670, 7063131, 7017807, 5961652, 5804059, 5804056, 5804053, 5804050 & 5193035. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR