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liquidate
/ˈlɪkwəˌdeɪt/
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What does liquidate mean?
verb
- (figuratively) To make (a sound) less harsh.
- (figuratively) To use up (money or other assets) wastefully; to dissipate, to squander, to waste.
- (figuratively, informal) To kill (someone), usually violently, and especially for some ideological or political aim; to assassinate, to murder; also, to abolish or eliminate (something); to do away with, to put an end to.
More meanings (9)
verb
- (figuratively) To convert (assets) into cash; to encash, to realize, to redeem.
- (figuratively) To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount; to pay off.
- (figuratively) To settle the financial affairs of (a corporation, partnership, or other business) with the aim of ceasing operations, by determining liabilities, using assets to pay debts, and apportioning the remaining assets if any; to wind up.
- Of a corporation, partnership, or other business: to settle financial affairs with the aim of ceasing operations; to go into liquidation, to wind up.
- (archaic, rare) Synonym of liquefy (“to make (something) into a liquid”); to liquidize.
- (obsolete) To make (something) clear and intelligible.
- (obsolete) To resolve or settle (differences, disputes, etc.).
- (obsolete) To ascertain (an amount of money), especially by agreement or through litigation; also, to set out (financial accounts) properly.
adjective
- (archaic, obsolete, rare) Of an amount of money: ascertained, determined, fixed.
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IPA pronunciation
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In such a case, it is the province of the courts to liquidate and fix their meaning and operation.
To take, or hold one, against others, is ominous of adequate wealth to liquidate your obligations.
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Let me live onward; you shall find that, though slower, the progress of my character will liquidate all these debts without injustice to higher claims.
Whether the tax enters into the peculium of the prince or serves to liquidate a common debt, it is in either case only a claim of society against privilege; otherwise, it is impossible to say why the tax is levied in the ratio of fortunes.
Suffice it to observe, that it was a masterpiece of eloquence; and that those passages in which he more particularly traced his own successful career to its source, and warned the younger portion of his auditory from the shoals of ever incurring pecuniary liabilities which they were unable to liquidate, brought a tear into the manliest eye present.