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Liquidate   /lˈɪkwɪdˌeɪt/   Listen
Liquidate

verb
(past & past part. liquidated; pres. part. liquidating)
1.
Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing.  Synonyms: do in, knock off, neutralise, neutralize, waste.  "The double agent was neutralized"
2.
Eliminate by paying off (debts).  Synonym: pay off.
3.
Convert into cash.
4.
Settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off.





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"Liquidate" Quotes from Famous Books



... from the White Nile to Khartoum; hands over to his creditor sufficient ivory to liquidate the original loan of 1,000 pounds, and, already a man of capital, he commences as ...
— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker
... Why, God bless you, man, I don't owe a dollar in the world, but what I can liquidate in ...
— The Humors of Falconbridge - A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes • Jonathan F. Kelley
... burial-ground. The Legislature can grant no divorces, nor pass any laws abolishing the relation of master and slave. The credit of the State can not be loaned. No State debt can be contracted without the imposition of a tax sufficient to meet the interest, and liquidate the debt in fifteen years. Corporations to be formed only under general laws; stockholders are liable to an amount equal to their shares; no officer of a corporation to borrow money of it. Imprisonment for debt is abolished. ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 • Various
... are unimportant compared with the more comprehensive provision by which "the Allied and Associated Powers reserve the right to retain and liquidate all property, rights, and interests belonging at the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty to German nationals, or companies controlled by them," within the former German colonies.[16] This wholesale ...
— The Economic Consequences of the Peace • John Maynard Keynes
... Job Harby and S'r John Nulles, Kn'ts, for soe much paid to the King of Denmke for redempion of a greate Jewell, and to liquidate the accompts betwixt his Ma'ty and the said ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850 • Various


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