Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of liquidating; the act of adjusting debts, or ascertaining their amount or the balance of them due.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated.
  • noun (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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.
  • noun The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of exterminating
  • noun termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
  • noun the murder of a competitor

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Examples

  • Mr. Antonucci, who pleaded guilty to fraud last week, including criminal charges about this transaction, changed the name of the assets to Park Avenue Property & Casualty Insurance Co., the company that is currently in liquidation in the court.

    Oklahoma Sues Park Avenue Bank, Oppenheimer David Benoit 2010

  • "There was some short-term liquidation," said Tom Tucci , head of U.S. government bond trading in New York at primary dealer RBC Capital Markets LLC.

    Treasurys Shed Gains as 'Fat Finger' Error Gets Caught Min Zeng 2011

  • If so, four or five years, I doubt Obama will be able to pull off the same hijinx and will probably just have to let them enter into a normal bankruptcy process which could very well result in liquidation whereby those UAW pensions are dropped onto the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Ilya 2009

  • "When the price and the open interest drop, that is called liquidation," Mr. Gero said.

    Gold Futures Dip Tatyana Shumsky 2011

  • In 1981, when we went in liquidation, we were poised to become mainstream publishers.

    Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1) 2009

  • If so, four or five years, I doubt Obama will be able to pull off the same hijinx and will probably just have to let them enter into a normal bankruptcy process which could very well result in liquidation whereby those UAW pensions are dropped onto the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

    Chrysler xtra 2009

  • Mr. Antonucci, who pleaded guilty to fraud last week, including criminal charges about this transaction, changed the name of the assets to Park Avenue Property & Casualty Insurance Co., the company that is currently in liquidation in the court.

    Financial Briefing Book: Oct. 20 2010

  • Combined with customers who would steer clear of Detroit brands because of uncertainty surrounding maintenance warranties, a messy bankruptcy could have have kicked off a vicious downward spiral that could have ended in liquidation and enormous job losses.

    Wonk Room » If We Had Let GM Go Bankrupt Last November, We Could Have Lost Another Million Jobs 2009

  • Fine purveyors of vibrating massage chairs and miniature plastic pinball tables, the liquidation is being handled by Gordon Brothers Retail Partners.

    Sharper Image Liquidating All Stores - The Consumerist 2008

  • “We are operating the Earth like it is a business in liquidation,” he says.

    The Conscientious Investor 2007

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