- adequate: sufficient, good enough
- collapse: falling down
- concerns: worries
- conversation: two or more people talking together
- corporation: company, firm
- court: place where a judge decides if someone if guilty or not
- creditors: people who lend money
- debt: money that someone has borrowed
- disgraced: shamed, has got a bad reputation
- eviction: being kicked out of your home
- financial: to do with money
- fired: sacked, dismissed, lose your job
- fund-raising: getting money for some project
- give up: stop trying, stop making an effort
- losses: losing money
- malpractices: doing bad or wrong things
- nowhere to be found: noone knows where he is
- operational: working normally, in action
- potential partners: people who might become your partner
- proved to be: turned out to be, was finally ...
- wrongdoing: doing the wrong thing