Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Involving goods convertible into cash in a short time. Used of business transactions.
- adjective Producing a return equal to the sum invested to create or maintain something.
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Examples
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Discrimination in the private sector, he says, is "self-liquidating," something that will come as news to the many successful complainants before any of our human rights tribunals, and I'm not talking about the "hate speech" provisions, either.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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FDR and his Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. ramped up self-liquidating enterprises and quasi-publics.
Michael Likosky: Let Wave Two Begin -- Obama, Geithner and an Infrastructure Bank Michael Likosky 2011
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FDR and his Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. ramped up self-liquidating enterprises and quasi-publics.
Michael Likosky: Let Wave Two Begin -- Obama, Geithner and an Infrastructure Bank Michael Likosky 2011
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Such rule provides that if an organizer wishes to arrange an offering of mortgage-backed or like securities -- this by selling to an issuer mortgage loans or similarly self-liquidating obligations to serve as collateral -- the organizer must retain at least 5% of the credit risk on obligations sold.
Louis M. Guenin: Regulating Collateralized Debt Obligations, the Elephant in the Room Untouched by Financial Reform Bills Louis M. Guenin 2010
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Solid credit, he explained, is based either “(1) upon the competence, character, and earning power of the borrower, or (2) upon documents representing genuinely self-liquidating transactions.”
The Great Depression 2008
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Solid credit, he explained, is based either “(1) upon the competence, character, and earning power of the borrower, or (2) upon documents representing genuinely self-liquidating transactions.”
The Great Depression 2008
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Solid credit, he explained, is based either “(1) upon the competence, character, and earning power of the borrower, or (2) upon documents representing genuinely self-liquidating transactions.”
The Great Depression 2008
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Exactly what “self-liquidating” meant was unclear, and fifty billion dollars was a lot of money.
Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010
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There is discrimination in the private sector, but it is self-liquidating over time because of the costs it imposes on discriminators.
Who's the carpetbagger? Dave 2009
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There is discrimination in the private sector, but it is self-liquidating over time because of the costs it imposes on discriminators.
Archive 2009-05-01 Alison 2009
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