distressed
IPA: dɪstrˈɛst
adjective
- Anxious or uneasy.
- (of merchandise, etc.) Damaged.
- (of a property) Offered for sale after foreclosure.
- (of furniture, etc.) Faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique.
- (finance, of securities) Experiencing financial or operational distress, default, or bankruptcy.
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Examples of "distressed" in Sentences
- Phoebe Caldwell prefers to use the term distressed behaviour rather than challenging behaviour.
- The second is to improve the quality of band programs in distressed regions of Appalachia and Appalachia in general.
- I think the term distressed is no longer one that's used in sort of the normal course of describing the New York City office building market.
- The first is to create a network to supply public middle school and high school band programs in distressed counties of Appalachia with new and used supplies and instruments.
- In its Southgate appeals brief, the government says that Beal used what it calls the distressed asset/debt or "DAD" shelter multiple times to "stockpile over $4 billion in artificial losses to shelter future income."
- We want to be very careful in what we spend money on and how, and so specifically regarding acquisitions, we've seen a few interesting situations to-date in the last couple months but there haven't been a large flow of what I described as distressed sales yet.
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