EGAVE

liquidation

About 1.87 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The act or process of liquidating or of being liquidated. The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash. The act or process of winding up the affairs of a company; the selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.
    The store is having a liquidation sale: everything must go as they go out of business.
  2. noun The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash. The act or process of winding up the affairs of a company; the selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.
    The store is having a liquidation sale: everything must go as they go out of business.
  3. noun The act or process of winding up the affairs of a company; the selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.
    The store is having a liquidation sale: everything must go as they go out of business.
  4. noun The clearing off or settling of a debt.
  5. noun The act or process of abolishing or eliminating; the murder of dehumanized victims.
    When Stalinists spoke of the liquidation of the kulaks as a class, they intentionally created ambiguity regarding reeducation versus murder.
  6. noun The partial clearing of the board, by an exchange of pieces, to obtain an obviously winning position.
  7. noun The action or fact of partaking of an alcoholic drink.

Similar words

settlement elimination extermination winding-up divestment bankruptcy write-off sell-off insolvency liquidity

Often followed by

of and or value is in was by preference

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