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liquidate English

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What does liquidate mean?
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liquidate

If something is being liquidated, it is being converted into cash to settle a debt.

liquidate

(= neutralize, neutralise) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing The mafia liquidated the informer the double agent was neutralized (= pay off) eliminate by paying off (debts) convert into cash I had to liquidate my holdings to pay off my ex-husband settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off liquidate a company

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liquidate · verb

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We need to liquidate.
As long as they liquidate you.
Trying to liquidate one of their own big shots.
Just try to liquidate me there!
You must help us liquidate Long.
My father was executor of the estate and refused to liquidate it.
In Russia, we do not have royalty. not since we liquidate the Czar.
Maybe we should liquidate the whole human race. and start all over again.
Liquidate!
Think they'd come and liquidate?
Whether they liquidate us or not when this thing is over, you just better get out of my way.
At which time, you encourage him to liquidate your relatives, right?
Leonard Von Braun, inventor of the death ray bring back alive, or liquidate.
Then why doesn't he have the sense to let his station head stay in Berlin. and arrange for somebody to liquidate Mundt?
We'll be forced to liquidate.
Any word will do so long as they liquidate you.
The difficulty, of course, was to liquidate you without seeming to have a hand in this business.
That was all. Trying to liquidate one of their own big shots.
Just try to liquidate me there! Watch that I don't catch you!
Detecting all liabilities and liquidate. Detecting all liabilities and liquidate.
Detect and liquidate.
Detecting all liabilities and liquidate.
Yes, but Mr. Vabre will have to liquidate.
I'm going to liquidate that bastard.
The point is to liquidate the station.
We'll liquidate them when we leave.
Liquidate. Immediate liquidation necessary.
They will try to liquidate me.
I will pay the loans, and perhaps will sell everything to liquidate the debts.
On the other hand, if I save your life you'll liquidate the ghetto.
And if you do not my men will liquidate you.
Liquidate everything, Mitch.
You see? Let's liquidate the evidence.
He's taking the company public. He wanted to liquidate your majority shareholding.

News and current affairs

Because banks service their depositors on a first-come-first-served basis, those who wait risk being left empty-handed, because the bank may be forced to liquidate its long term-assets at a loss and run out of resources.
In the interwar Great Depression, the economist Irving Fisher accurately described the process of debt deflation, in which lenders, worried by the deterioration of their asset quality, called in their loans, pushing borrowers to liquidate assets.
But statesmen who aim to liquidate the debt should recall another famous specter - the specter of revolution.
Japanese were told to socialize the losses their banking system incurred when Japan's bubble burst, then re-privatize those parts of it that could still succeed as going concerns and liquidate the rest.
Moreover, it must have centralized banking supervisory policies, with strong powers to manage bank crises and to liquidate banks that cannot be rescued.
A government cannot liquidate its deficit if the source of its revenues, the national income, is diminishing.
With the larger part of the outstanding stock in friendly hands, and institutional bondholders pressed to liquidate their positions in the midst of the post-Lehman Brothers selloff, the operation was a success.
Only the probability of a default - and the goal of avoiding even deeper haircuts - can induce investors to liquidate their positions at a discount.
Similarly, banks have short-term liabilities (deposits) and long-term assets, which they cannot liquidate quickly without incurring great losses.
Conversely, a decrease in the stock price of steel manufacturers leads entrepreneurs to liquidate existing plants and dissuades investors from committing more resources to the sector.
Officials would liquidate the low-return investments that form the legacy of the late-1980s asset-price bubble and then clear away the wreckage left behind in the financial system.
The Egyptian government's only role should be to help liquidate Mubarak assets for repayment should the need arise.

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