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Liquidation   /lˌɪkwɪdˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Liquidation

noun
1.
Termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities.  Synonym: settlement.
2.
The act of exterminating.  Synonym: extermination.
3.
The murder of a competitor.  Synonym: elimination.






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"Liquidation" Quotes from Famous Books



... in consideration of which accommodation Addicks should forfeit the old Boston companies to him through Bay State's failure to comply with the terms of the May contract which matured the following Monday. Rogers would administer these companies in trust, applying their earnings to the liquidation of the bonds, and after these latter had been paid off, would turn them back to the Bay State Company for the benefit of its stock; or he would release the companies to us whenever we could raise the money to redeem them. Thus Rogers would make sure of the amount of ...
— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson

... confiscation of the estates of the fraudulent directors; the credit of the Company's bonds was maintained; thirty-three pounds six shillings and eightpence per cent. were divided among the proprietors, and two millions were reserved towards the liquidation of the national debt. The Company was therefore put into a position to carry out its various public engagements, and the panic was soon over. Many of the proprietors of the Company complained bitterly of the ...
— A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) • Justin McCarthy

... sentence ofa short story or the first chapter of a novel gave the whole show away. We welcomed the English stories of a decade ago that began to give the complexities of life instead of the conventions of a plot. But this complete liquidation rather appals us. The novels I have mentioned so far in this article have all together not enough plot to set up one lively Victorian novel. Benet, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald—the flood-gates of each mind have been opened, and all that the years had dammed ...
— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby



Words linked to "Liquidation" :   viaticus settlement, ending, extermination, slaying, viatical settlement, liquidate, devastation, settlement, elimination, murder, conclusion, destruction, termination, execution



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