Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state of being liquid.
- noun The quality of being readily convertible into cash.
- noun Available cash or the capacity to obtain it on demand.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being liquid; fluid consistence; capacity of flowing freely.
- noun The quality of being smooth, flowing, and agreeable: said of sound, music, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being liquid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state or property of being
liquid . - noun economics, countable An
asset 's property of being able to be sold without affecting its value; the degree to which it can be easily converted intocash . - noun finance Availability of cash over short term: ability to service short-term debt.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
- noun the property of flowing easily
- noun being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability
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Examples
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We expect this increase in liquidity is going to be here to stay for some time as the advanced countries, and in particular the United States, struggles to reignite growth and to stabilize their economies.
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But what if the Fed has to sell assets to drain liquidity from the economy faster than it might prefer, and thus take losses on its portfolio?
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First, the term liquidity when referred to by the Fed, simply means that there is ample money flowing around to create the consumption based economy that we live and breathe.
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But again liquidity is the name of the game in this market.
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LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES The term liquidity refers to the speed with which a company's assets can be converted into cash, as well as cash on hand.
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Bank analysts also said the bailout reduces the chances of a short term liquidity crunch among the Portuguese banks, which have been unable to issue debt in financial markets for the past 12 months.
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The distribution of system in the liquidity is also very skewed on account of lumpy inflows for Coal India's IPO, said Manish Wadhawan, director and head of interest rates at HSBC India.
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This is a credit problem and it's a little bit complicated but what it means is the sub prime mortgages have now been repackaged by the Wall Street bros, sent out everywhere, and coming up in all kind of places and hurting what we call the liquidity of the market, the oxygen the credit markets use to breathe and that is having ramifications across the board.
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This is a credit problem and it's a little bit complicated but what it means is the sub prime mortgages have now been repackaged by the Wall Street bros, sent out everywhere, and coming up in all kind of places and hurting what we call the liquidity of the market, the oxygen the credit markets use to breathe and that is having ramifications across the board.
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The company's short term liquidity ratios are in very good shape and have actually improved over the first half of 2011.
oroboros commented on the word liquidity
Liquidity is when you look at your 401K and wet your pants!!
March 23, 2009
dontcry commented on the word liquidity
*snort*
*wah*
March 23, 2009