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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesruineux sur le plan financier
Pronunciation / Transliteration: ʁɥinø syʁ lə plan finɑ̃sjɛʁ
"Cette décision s'est avérée financièrement ruinueuse."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
Causing complete financial destruction, bankruptcy, or insurmountable debt.
"The prolonged lawsuit proved to be financially-ruinous for the small enterprise." - 2
Extremely costly to the point of threatening fiscal survival.
"They entered into a financially-ruinous contract without reading the fine print."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from 'financial', stemming from Old French 'finance' (related to ending a payment or settling a debt, from Latin 'finis' meaning end), combined with 'ruinous', from Latin 'ruinosus', derived from 'ruina' (a collapse or fall). The hyphenated compound adjective developed in modern economic discourse to describe actions, events, or policies that lead to catastrophic monetary loss.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Financially-ruinous" is said worldwide
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ruineux sur le plan financier
Transliteration: ʁɥinø syʁ lə plan finɑ̃sjɛʁ
"Cette décision s'est avérée financièrement ruinueuse."
finanziell ruinös
Transliteration: finanˈtsi̯ɛl ʁuinoːs
"Das Projekt erwies sich als finanziell ruinös."
finanziariamente rovinoso
Transliteration: finanziariamente rovinoso
"Quell'investimento si è rivelato finanziariamente rovinoso."
financieramente ruinoso
Transliteration: finandˈsjeɾmente rwiˈnosi
"La crisis resultó ser financieramente ruinosa para la empresa."
financeiramente ruinoso
Transliteration: finãseiraˈmẽtʃi ʁwiˈnozu
"A compra foi um erro financeiramente ruinoso."
आर्थिक रूप से बर्बाद करने वाला
Transliteration: aarthik roop se barbaad karne wala
"यह सौदा उनके लिए आर्थिक रूप से बर्बाद करने वाला साबित हुआ।"
经济上毁灭性的
Transliteration: jīngjì shàng huǐmiè xìng de
"这次投资对他们来说是经济上毁灭性的。"
재정적으로 파멸적인
Transliteration: jaejeongjeogeuro pamyeoljeogin
"그 소송은 그들에게 재정적으로 파멸적인 결과를 가져왔다."
経済的に破滅的な
Transliteration: keizaitekini hametsutekina
"その投資は会社にとって経済的に破滅的だった。"
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