uncollectible
adjective
un·col·lect·ible
ˌən-kə-ˈlek-tə-bəl 
: not capable of or suitable for being collected : not collectible
uncollectible loans/debt
Once deemed uncollectible because it can be easily reproduced, the photograph is now as common to the auction halls as a still life.—
Douglas Davis
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Even with such vetting, there will be claims that appear to be uncollectible, but a collection agency may still try—and win.
—Dean Kaplan, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
Some of those accounts remain closed and are written off by DTE as uncollectible debt.
—Sarah Alvarez, ProPublica, 26 Dec. 2023
But was the award so large as to be uncollectible?
—Joey Jackson, CNN, 15 Oct. 2022
The lender deems the loan uncollectible and charges off the loan.
—Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 15 Nov. 2022
Those accounts were found to be uncollectible in March 2021, according to two administrative orders, requiring them to be sent to the collection unit in the Maryland budget office.
—Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 21 Oct. 2022
Therefore, $10,000 is totally uncollectible and therefore worthless.
—Shehan Chandrasekera, Forbes, 1 July 2022
Furthermore, the share of credit card accounts being charged off — when a bank writes off a seriously delinquent debt as uncollectible — has fallen below 2% for the first time since at least 1985, according to data from the St. Louis Fed.
—Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 5 May 2022
Charge-offs—loans rates as uncollectible—totaled $1.2 billion in Q4 of 2019, and $1.1 billion in Q1 of this year, when the pandemic was just starting to bite.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2021
Dean Kaplan, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
Some of those accounts remain closed and are written off by DTE as uncollectible debt.
—Sarah Alvarez, ProPublica, 26 Dec. 2023
But was the award so large as to be uncollectible?
—Joey Jackson, CNN, 15 Oct. 2022
The lender deems the loan uncollectible and charges off the loan.
—Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 15 Nov. 2022
Those accounts were found to be uncollectible in March 2021, according to two administrative orders, requiring them to be sent to the collection unit in the Maryland budget office.
—Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 21 Oct. 2022
Therefore, $10,000 is totally uncollectible and therefore worthless.
—Shehan Chandrasekera, Forbes, 1 July 2022
Furthermore, the share of credit card accounts being charged off — when a bank writes off a seriously delinquent debt as uncollectible — has fallen below 2% for the first time since at least 1985, according to data from the St. Louis Fed.
—Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 5 May 2022
Charge-offs—loans rates as uncollectible—totaled $1.2 billion in Q4 of 2019, and $1.1 billion in Q1 of this year, when the pandemic was just starting to bite.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2021
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“Uncollectible.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uncollectible. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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