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Grammar : Noun
Spell : lik-wi-dey-shuh n
Phonetic Transcription : ˌlɪk wɪˈdeɪ ʃən



Definition of liquidation

Origin :
  • 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.
  • noun elimination
  • noun annihilation
Example sentences :
  • First the capital evaporates, and then the company goes into liquidation.
  • Extract from : « Victory » by Joseph Conrad
  • Two other companies went into liquidation in carrying out the work.
  • Extract from : « Reminiscences of Queensland » by William Henry Corfield
  • This may also be true of a period of liquidation not preceded by crisis.
  • Extract from : « The Settlement of Wage Disputes » by Herbert Feis
  • Mysterious addition, the liquidation of which must be left to the Hebrew scholar.
  • Extract from : « Not Paul, But Jesus » by Jeremy Bentham
  • The House of Commons determined to apply this to the liquidation of a debt.
  • Extract from : « Constitutional History of England, volume 3 of 3 » by Henry Hallam
  • I have spoken to Baring about the Commission of Liquidation.
  • Extract from : « Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 » by Thomas Wodehouse Legh Newton
  • Liquidation was her course—the only honest—the only justifiable course.
  • Extract from : « Thirty Years' View (Vol. II of 2) » by Thomas Hart Benton
  • She still had her work at the bank; the progress of liquidation was slow.
  • Extract from : « When Egypt Went Broke » by Holman Day
  • The loss referred to was rendered easy to him in its liquidation.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi » by Joseph Grimaldi
  • Noah,—he floated his stock when all the world was in liquidation.
  • Extract from : « The Handbook of Conundrums » by Edith B. Ordway

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