liquidate
Etymology
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Etymology
From Medieval Latin liquidatus (“liquid, clear”), past participle of liquidare.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ˈlɪkwədeɪt/, /ˈlɪkwɪdeɪt/
liquidate (liquidates, present participle liquidating; simple past and past participle liquidated)
- (transitive) To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
- 1779, William Coxe, Sketches of the Natural, Political and Civil State of Switzerland:
- 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.
- 1851, Hargroves v. Cooke, 15th Georgia Reports 321:
- A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law.
- February 27, 1759, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, letter to his son (letter CXXVIII)
- If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated, I believe you would be brought in considerably debtor.
- (transitive) To do away with.
- (transitive) to kill, destroy, eliminate (mostly for political or ideological reasons)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make clear and intelligible.
- (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: переводить в наличные
- French: liquider
- German: liquidieren
- Portuguese: liquidar
- Russian: ликвиди́ровать
- Spanish: liquidar
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