'Liquidation' definitions:
Definition of 'liquidation'
From: WordNet
noun
Termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities [syn: liquidation, settlement]
noun
The act of exterminating [syn: extermination, liquidation]
noun
The murder of a competitor [syn: elimination, liquidation]
Definition of 'Liquidation'
From: GCIDE
- Liquidation \Liq`ui*da"tion\ (l[i^]k`w[i^]*d[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [Cf. F. liquidation.] The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated. [1913 Webster]
- To go into liquidation (Law), to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness may be authoritatively ascertained, and that the assets may be applied toward their discharge. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'liquidation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abolishment,
- abolition,
- acquitment,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- agiotage,
- amortization,
- amortizement,
- annihilation,
- annulment,
- arbitrage,
- assassination,
- binder,
- bloody murder,
- bumping-off,
- buying in,
- cash,
- cash payment,
- cashiering,
- choking,
- choking off,
- clearance,
- debt service,
- deconsecration,
- defrayal,
- defrayment,
- defrocking,
- deportation,
- deposal,
- deposit,
- deposition,
- deprivation,
- deracination,
- detachment,
- dethronement,
- disbarment,
- disbarring,
- disbursal,
- discard,
- discharge,
- discrownment,
- disenthronement,
- disjunction,
- dismissal,
- displacement,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- doling out,
- down payment,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- ejection,
- elimination,
- equity capital,
- eradication,
- excommunication,
- exile,
- expatriation,
- expulsion,
- extermination,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- extirpation,
- firing,
- flier,
- flutter,
- forced resignation,
- foul play,
- hire purchase,
- hire purchase plan,
- homicide,
- impeachment,
- installment,
- installment plan,
- interest payment,
- kicking upstairs,
- manslaughter,
- monthly payments,
- murder,
- negation,
- never-never,
- nullification,
- ostracism,
- ousting,
- outlawing,
- outlawry,
- overthrow,
- overthrowal,
- paying,
- paying off,
- paying out,
- paying up,
- payment,
- payment in kind,
- payoff,
- pensioning off,
- plunge,
- prepayment,
- profit taking,
- purge,
- purging,
- quarterly payments,
- quittance,
- regular payments,
- remittance,
- removal,
- retirement,
- riddance,
- rooting out,
- round trade,
- satisfaction,
- scalping,
- settlement,
- severance,
- silencing,
- sinking-fund payment,
- snuffing out,
- speculation,
- spot cash,
- spot sale,
- stifling,
- stockjobbery,
- stockjobbing,
- strangulation,
- suffocation,
- superannuation,
- suppression,
- suspension,
- thuggee,
- thuggery,
- thuggism,
- turn,
- unchurching,
- unfrocking,
- unseating,
- uprooting,
- venture,
- venture capital,
- voiding,
- weekly payments,
- withdrawal
Words containing 'Liquidation'
- Liquid,
- Liquidate,
- Liquidated,
- Liquidating,
- Liquidator,
- Liquidity,
- Liquidize,
- Liquidized,
- Liquidizing,
- Liquidly,
- Liquidness,
- liquidizer,
- Dutch liquid,
- Liquid air,
- Liquid glass,
- Liquid glue,
- Liquid measure,
- Liquidated damages,
- To go into liquidation,
- dishwashing liquid,
- liquid assets,
- liquid barretter,
- liquid bleach,
- liquid copal,
- liquid crystal,
- liquid detergent,
- liquid diet,
- liquid ecstasy,
- liquid nitrogen,
- liquid oxygen,
- liquid pred,
- liquid soap,
- liquid state,
- liquid storax,
- liquid unit,
- liquidity crisis,
- Cadet's fuming liquid,
- clear liquid diet,
- liquid body substance,
- liquid crystal display,
- liquid metal reactor,
- liquid-fueled,
- principle of liquid displacement,
- united states liquid unit