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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

... of Law's was vast and bold. Its success would liquidate the state debt and diminish the annual charges on the treasury, reducing the interest from eighty millions to forty-five or forty-eight millions. The annual charges from which the treasury was to be relieved were to be paid from the profits on the collection ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 • Various

... me something, I shall be obliged to take it, so as to save part of my business, and replace it as soon as possible. Thank God, the home is safe; it can never be taken from you, and never would I consider it my duty to rob my wife and children of home and happiness, to liquidate my debts. I owe my creditors a duty which I will work to fulfill, while I live; but, I owe my family a greater one; so Olive dear, the old home is always safe. To-night I am more thankful to hold thirty dollars, than two months ago, I would have been to hold a hundred, and only ...
— Six Girls - A Home Story • Fannie Belle Irving

... whole weeks from launching their boats, they live almost entirely on dried fishes' heads. {30} The fishes themselves have been salted down and sold, partly to pay the fishermen's taxes, and partly to liquidate debts for the necessaries of the past season, among which brandy and snuff unfortunately play far too prominent ...
— Visit to Iceland - and the Scandinavian North • Ida Pfeiffer

... folly by my most conspicuously silly action, I wish to behave handsomely to all who give me countenance. Gentlemen, you shall wait no longer. Although my constitution is shattered by previous excesses, at the risk of my life I liquidate the suspensory condition." ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... the couple quickly met, And the tramp produced the specie for to liquidate his debt; And the man who did the preachin' took his twenty of the sum, Which you see that out of thirty left ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various



Words linked to "Liquidate" :   amortise, cash in, settle, pay, amortize, liquidator, cash, liquidation, pay up, kill, ante up, lift



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