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    liq·ui·date
    [ˈlikwəˌdāt]
    verb
    liquidate (verb) · liquidates (third person present) · liquidated (past tense) · liquidated (past participle) · liquidating (present participle)
    1. wind up the affairs of (a company or firm) by ascertaining liabilities and apportioning assets:
      "if the company was liquidated, there would be enough funds released to honor the debts"
      • (of a company) undergo liquidation:
        "the company would have the strength to reorganize and not be forced to liquidate"
      • convert (assets) into cash:
        "a plan to liquidate $10,000,000 worth of property over seven years"
      • pay off (a debt):
        "the fund was raided for purposes other than liquidating the public debt"
    2. informal
      eliminate, typically by violent means; kill:
      "rivals and critics were liquidated in bloody purges"
    Origin
    mid 16th century (in the sense ‘set out (accounts) clearly’): from medieval Latin liquidat- ‘made clear’, from the verb liquidare, from Latin liquidus (see liquid). liquidate was influenced by Italian liquidare and French liquider, liquidate by Russian likvidirovatʹ.
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    verb
    1. wind up the affairs of (a company or firm) by ascertaining liabilities and apportioning assets:
    2. eliminate, typically by violent means; kill:
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  1. Liquidate means to1234:
    • Settle or pay off a debt, claim, etc.
    • Determine by litigation or agreement the amount of damages, indebtedness, etc.
    • Terminate the operations of a commercial firm, bankrupt estate, etc. by assessment of liabilities and appropriation of assets for their settlement.
    • Sell your investments or property to make them available in the form of money.
    • Cause a business to close, so that its assets can be sold to pay its debts.
    • Determine the liabilities and apportion the assets of especially in bankruptcy or dissolution.
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    ˈlɪkwɪˌdeɪt verb to settle or pay off (a debt, claim, etc) to determine by litigation or agreement the amount of (damages, indebtedness, etc) to terminate the operations of (a commercial firm, bankrupt estate, etc) by assessment of liabilities and appropriation of assets for their settlement
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    to sell your investments or property to make them available in the form of money: Investors have started to liquidate their mutual funds. Someone who liquidates a business closes it and sells what it owns.
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    liquidate verb (CLOSE) [ I or T ] to cause a business to close, so that its assets can be sold to pay its debts
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    : to determine by agreement or litigation the precise amount of also : to settle (a debt) by payment or other adjustment 2 a : to determine the liabilities and apportion the assets of especially in bankruptcy or dissolution liquidate a corporation compare bankruptcy
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