FINANCEanassetthat haslostall or most ofitsvalue:Thegovernmentisconsideringaplantobuyupbanks'badassets.(Definition ofbad assetfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofbad asset
bad assetSpeed is not abadassetin the scheme of criminal justice as we have it.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0In an internal restructuring, the bank creates a separate unit to hold the bad assets.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Companies that sell their bad assets to the government must provide warrants so that taxpayers will benefit from future growth of the companies.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In addition to segregating or removing the bad assets from the parent bank's balance sheet, a bad bank structure permits more specialized management.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In these circumstances, the bank may wish to segregate its good assets from its bad assets through the creation of a bad bank.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/bad-asset##
