Synonyms and related words :
bankruptcy, bouncing check, broken fortune, bust, collapse, crash, difficulties, distress, embarrassment, failure, genteel poverty, hard pinch, hardship, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, insufficient funds, kited check, light purse, narrow means, overdraft, overdrawn account, poorness, poverty, receivership, slender means, straitened circumstances, straits, tight squeeze, unprosperousness, voluntary poverty, vows of poverty