liquidation

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  1. The act of liquidating; the act of adjusting debts, or ascertaining their amount or the balance of them due. In a more general sense, the act or operation of winding up the affairs of a firm or company by getting in the assets, settling with its debtors and creditors, and apportioning the amount of each partner's or shareholder's profit or loss, etc.
  2. Signing in liquidation the act of the partner who is intrusted with the business of liquidation, in signing for the firm when necessary for that purpose. It is indicated by his writing the name of the firm and adding the words in liquidation.
  3. To go into liquidation to refrain from new business, and continue business only for the purpose of getting in the assets, paying obligations, and dividing the surplus, if any.

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  • Below is a list of 13 credit unions that were liquidated in 2008 based on the liquidation press release for 2008 mentioned that the liquidation was the 14th of the year. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • The process of liquidation, which is starting this week, will notably organize the potential trade-in or resale of the company's assets including the Electronic Sports World Cup and Overgame. —  GotFrag eSports Stories
  • It's uncertain what will happen to the company's 9,800 workers after the liquidation is completed by the end of March. —  The Times-Journal: News
  • Synthetic trading and speculative long liquidation were the elements of the day. —  ThePigSite - Industry News
  • - Inventory Liquidations announced today the launch of a high level business domain name liquidation that includes hundreds of the most keyword rich domain names available anywhere. —  DomainInformer Articles
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  1. = French liquidation = Spanish liquidation = Portuguese liquidação = Italian liquidazione, from Middle Latin as if *liquidatio(n-), from liquidare, past participle liquidatus, liquidate: see liquidate.
 

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