Meaning of LIQUIDATION
| Pronunciation: | | `likwi'deyshun
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- [n] the murder of a competitor
- [n] termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
- [n] the act of exterminating
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| | Synonyms: | | elimination, extermination, settlement |
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| | See Also: | | conclusion, destruction, devastation, ending, execution, homicide, murder, slaying, termination, viatical settlement, viaticus settlement | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Liq`ui*da"tion\ (l[i^]k`w[i^]*d[=a]"sh[u^]n), n.
[Cf. F. liquidation.]
The act or process of liquidating; the state of being
liquidated.
{To go into liquidation} (Law), to turn over to a trustee
one's assets and accounts, in order that the several
amounts of one's indebtedness may be authoritatively
ascertained, and that the assets may be applied toward
their discharge.
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| | Related Terms: | | abolishment, abolition, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, agiotage, amortization, amortizement, annihilation, annulment, arbitrage, assassination, binder, bloody murder, bumping-off, buying in, cash, cash payment, cashiering, choking, choking off, clearance, debt service, deconsecration, defrayal, defrayment, defrocking, deportation, deposal, deposit, deposition, deprivation, deracination, detachment, dethronement, disbarment, disbarring, disbursal, discard, discharge, discrownment, disenthronement, disjunction, dismissal, displacement, disposal, disposition, doling out, down payment, earnest, earnest money, ejection, elimination, equity capital, eradication, excommunication, exile, expatriation, expulsion, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, firing, flier, flutter, forced resignation, foul play, hire purchase, hire purchase plan, homicide, impeachment, installment, installment plan, interest payment, kicking upstairs, manslaughter, monthly payments, murder, negation, never-never, nullification, ostracism, ousting, outlawing, outlawry, overthrow, overthrowal, paying, paying off, paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind, payoff, pensioning off, plunge, prepayment, profit taking, purge, purging, quarterly payments, quittance, regular payments, remittance, removal, retirement, riddance, rooting out, round trade, satisfaction, scalping, settlement, severance, silencing, sinking-fund payment, snuffing out, speculation, spot cash, spot sale, stifling, stockjobbery, stockjobbing, strangulation, suffocation, superannuation, suppression, suspension, thuggee, thuggery, thuggism, turn, unchurching, unfrocking, unseating, uprooting, venture, venture capital, voiding, weekly payments, withdrawal |
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