liquidate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈlɪkwədeɪt/, /ˈlɪkwɪdeɪt/
liquidate (liquidates, present participle liquidating; past and past participle liquidated)
- (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.
- (transitive) To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
- (transitive) To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem.
- (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.
- (transitive) To do away with.
- (transitive) To kill.
- (obsolete, transitive) To make clear and intelligible.
- Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system.
- (obsolete, transitive) To make liquid.
- (to settle the affairs) conclude
- (to kill) Thesaurus:kill
- French: liquider
- German: liquidieren
- Russian: выпла́чивать
- French: liquider
- German: liquidieren
- Russian: урегули́ровать
- French: liquider
- German: liquidieren
- Russian: переводи́ть в нали́чные
- French: liquider
- German: liquidieren
- Portuguese: liquidar
- Russian: ликвиди́ровать
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