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Liquidate   /lˈɪkwɪdˌeɪt/   Listen
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Liquidate  v. t.  (past & past part. liquidated; pres. part. liquidating)  
1.
(Law) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness) clear and certain. "A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law." "If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated, I believe you would be brought in considerable debtor."
2.
In an extended sense: To ascertain the amount, or the several amounts, of, and apply assets toward the discharge of (an indebtedness).
3.
To discharge; to pay off or settle, as an indebtedness. "Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins."
4.
To make clear and intelligible. "Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system."
5.
To make liquid. (Obs.)
6.
To convert (assets) into cash.
7.
To kill; used mostly of governments or organizations killing their enemies; as, Stalin liquidated many of the Kulaks.
8.
To dissolve (an organization); to terminate (an activity).
Liquidated damages (Law), damages the amount of which is fixed or ascertained.






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"Liquidate" Quotes from Famous Books



... smiled, and absolutely looked a little confused. The idea of commencing to liquidate many thousands of pounds by means of fifty was so inexpressibly ridiculous, that he half expected to hear his own respectful child laugh at him. But Aileen did not laugh. With her large earnest eyes she looked at him, and the unuttered ...
— Under the Waves - Diving in Deep Waters • R M Ballantyne

... required to maintain, and the inadequacy of the ancient fees for the maintenance of that pomp. When Elizabeth pressed Hatton for payment of the sums which he owed her, the Chancellor lamented his inability to liquidate her just claims, and urged in excuse that the ancient fees were very inadequate to the expenses of the Chancellor's office. But though Elizabethan Chancellors could not live upon their ancient fees, they kept up palaces in town and ...
— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson

... Philippe returned to Issoudun, furnished with a power of attorney from his aunt, to liquidate the estate of his uncle; a business that was soon over, for he returned to Paris in March, 1824, with sixteen hundred thousand francs,—the net proceeds of old Rouget's property, not counting the precious pictures, which had never left Monsieur Hochon's ...
— The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac

... guarding them by night. Settlements were made with the different sellers, my outstanding obligations amounting to over one hundred thousand dollars, which the three steer herds were expected to liquidate. My active partner and George Edwards took train for the north. The only change in the programme was that Major Hunter was to look after our deliveries at army posts, while I was to meet our herds on their arrival in Dodge City. The cows were sold to the firm, ...
— Reed Anthony, Cowman • Andy Adams

... represented an apparently consistent theory in finance; but the great host of debtors who did not wish their obligation to be made more onerous, and the great host of creditors who did not desire that their debtors should be embarrassed and possibly rendered unable to liquidate, united on the practical side of the question and aroused public opinion against the course of the Treasury Department. An individual, by an effort of will, can bring himself to endure present inconvenience and even suffering, for a great good that lies beyond, ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine


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