City Trader Almost Unable To Do Further Business Crossword Clue

We think the answer is "BROKE" which means:

adjective satellite
• • Lacking funds
verb
• • To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
• • To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• • To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• • To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• • To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• • To ruin financially.
• • To violate, to not adhere to.
• • (of a fever) to pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, in terms of temperature.
• • (of a spell of settled weather) to end.
• • (of a storm) to begin; to end.
• • (of morning, dawn, day etc.) to arrive.
• • To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
• • To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• • To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• • To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• • (of a wave of water) to collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• • To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• • To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• • To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
• • To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• • (of a sound) to become audible suddenly.
• • To change a steady state abruptly.
• • To suddenly become.
• • Of a male voice, to become deeper at puberty.
• • Of a voice, to alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down; to crack.
• • To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
• • :
• • (most often in the passive tense) to demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• • To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• • (of an emulsion) to demulsify.
• • To counter-attack
• • To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• • To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• • To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• • To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• • To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• • To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• • To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• • To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
• • To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
• • To act as a broker; to transact business for another.
• • To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.
adjective
• • Financially ruined, bankrupt.
• • Without any money, penniless.
• • Broken.
• • Demoted, deprived of a commission.
• • Broke off, rich, wealthy
noun
• • (papermaking) paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.
• • A fragment, remains, a piece broken off.

An example sentence would be:

• • "My car broke down on the way to work."
• • "The sudden jump in the stock market resulted in a broke investor losing all his money."

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