solvency

English

Etymology

From solvent + -cy.

Pronunciation

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Noun

solvency (usually uncountable, plural solvencies)

1. (finance) The state of having enough funds or liquid assets to pay all of one's debts; the state of being solvent.
   • 2011 August 7, Paul Krugman, “A Self-Fulfilling Euro Crisis? (Wonkish)”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     This is often phrased in terms of whether they are facing liquidity or solvency problems; but I think it’s better phrased in terms of the possibility of self-fulfilling crises, a la Obstfeld.

Antonyms

• insolvency

Derived terms

• nonsolvency
• plumbosolvency
• solvency margin

Translations

ability to pay debts

• Arabic: سُيُولَة (suyūla)
• Armenian: վճարունակություն (hy) (včarunakutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: платежоспособност (bg) f (platežosposobnost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 償付能力 / 偿付能力 (chángfù nénglì)

• Czech: solvence (cs) f, platební schopnost f
• Danish: solvens (da)
• Dutch: solvabiliteit (nl)
• Esperanto: solventeco
• Finnish: maksukyky (fi), solvenssi
• French: solvabilité (fr) f
• Georgian: გადახდისუნარიანობა (gadaxdisunarianoba)
• German: Solvenz (de) f, Zahlungsfähigkeit (de) f
• Hungarian: fizetőképesség (hu), fizetésképesség
• Italian: solvibilità (it)
• Japanese: 支払能力 (しはらいのうりょく, shiharai nōryoku)
• Korean: 지불능력 (jibulleungnyeok)
• Norwegian: betalingsevne
• Polish: wypłacalność (pl) f
• Portuguese: solvabilidade (pt) f, solvência f
• Romanian: solvabilitate (ro) f
• Russian: платёжеспосо́бность (ru) f (platjožesposóbnostʹ)
• Spanish: solvencia (es) f
• Swedish: solvens (sv) c, betalningsförmåga (sv) c