liquidating

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It revolves around liquidating, and recycling, the remains of the old economy.

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  1. transitive verb To pay off (a debt, a claim, or an obligation); settle.
  2. transitive verb To settle the affairs of (a business firm, for example) by determining the liabilities and applying the assets to their discharge.
  3. transitive verb To convert (assets) into cash.
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  • "Suppliers aren't going into (bankruptcy protection), suppliers are liquidating, because there's no credit available," Hasenfratz said in an interview. —  News1130.com
  • Goody's Family Clothing is closing all stores and liquidating, according to media reports, leaving a hole in the newly opened Richmond Centre development south of Lexington. —  Kentucky.com: Homepage
  • Gottschalks Inc. 's deadline for finding a buyer or liquidating has been extended to March —  Merced Sun-Star: front
  • American forces continue to occupy two countries, Israel is going berserk in Gaza, capitalism is self-liquidating and global warming lurks as a ticking time bomb. —  Intrepid Liberal Journal
  • Take in other civilian casualties that the Germans were systematically liquidating, the threat of new long range missiles being developed, the worry or nuclear weapon development etc ... —  Pestiside.hu
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