liquidation

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
    the act of exterminating
    the murder of a competitor

Word Origin

liquidation (n.)
1570s, noun of action from Late Latin liquidare (see liquidate); originally as a legal term in reference to assets; of inconvenient groups of persons, 1925 in communist writings.

Example

1. The company is still in the liquidation process .
2. Foreign assets also face the threat of liquidation .
3. Today , lehman 's liquidation could be ordered .
4. That has given the system an unfortunate bias towards liquidation , he fears .
5. But what will you do 30 days from now when chrysler goes into liquidation ?

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