Ondrej Elleder (asker) Oct 6, 2013:

and yes, I'll go with bankruptcy on this one...

Ondrej Elleder (asker) Oct 6, 2013:

Stuart Interesting comment. There is a bit of chaos in the "Englished" mirror image of the Czech bankruptcy vocab, I agree - and actually even on the Czech side itself. Try picking a simple phrase and do a search on Eurlex - different page, different result: it's as if it was all the same: konkurz, konkurs, úpadek, insolvenční+noun, insolvency, bankruptcy etc.- it's a single soup being ladled out pell-mell....

Stuart Hoskins Oct 6, 2013:

konkurs, vyrovnání, úpadek, insolvenční Regarding bankruptcy/insolvency: interesting question. Under the 1991 Zákon o konkursu a vyrovnání, the term “úpadek“ could neatly be translated as “insolvency”, but with the arrival of the 2006 Insolvenční zákon, we suddenly had to deal with the word “insolvenční” (but not, funnily enough, insolvence), while “vyrovnání“ (“composition”) took more of a back seat. So nowadays we have to consider more carefully how to translate “úpadek”, and in this case I’d definitely say “bankruptcy”. This is just my personal view. It would be great to hear the view of someone more erudite in this field.