English
liquidate
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈlɪkwədeɪt/, /ˈlɪkwɪdeɪt/
Verb

liquidate (liquidates, present participle liquidating; past and past participle liquidated)

  1. (transitive) To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
    • Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins.
  2. (transitive) To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
  3. (transitive) To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem.
  4. (legal, transitive) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain.
    • 15 Ga. Rep. 821
      A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law.
    • If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated, I believe you would be brought in considerably debtor.
  5. (transitive) To do away with.
  6. (transitive) To kill.
  7. (obsolete, transitive) To make clear and intelligible.
    • Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system.
  8. (obsolete, transitive) To make liquid.
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