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Liquidate   /lˈɪkwɪdˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
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



... subsistence. In ten weeks the face of the bill will be thus repaid. For his forbearance in the matter of time, which hath most seriously inconvenienced him, he requires that you shall pay him the further sum of L2 as usury, and likewise that you do liquidate and save him harmless from the charges of us, his solicitors, which charges, from the number of grave and complicated questions which have become a part of this case and demanded solution, we are unable to make less than L4. We should say guineas, but ...
— Shakespeare's Insomnia, And the Causes Thereof • Franklin H. Head

... in less time than it will take you to tell your beads, mon gaillard" said Mueller the ferocious, as, having captured my Napoleon, he prepared to go down and liquidate with number One Thousand and Eleven. "And it's of no use to bolt me out, because I shall hammer away till you let me in, and that will wake your fellow-lodgers. So let me find you up, and ready for ...
— In the Days of My Youth • Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards

... feet. He paused, considered, and resumed his seat. Mr. Leslie had regained his normal color and his composure. He put his finger-tips together, and jerked out in his usual incisive tone: "I propose to liquidate this obligation to you without delay. Would you prefer ...
— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet

... This plan would liquidate all of the free-world positions in the western Pacific area and bring them under captive governments which would be hostile to the United States and the free world. Thus the Chinese and Russian Communists would come to ...
— The Communist Threat in the Taiwan Area • John Foster Dulles and Dwight D. Eisenhower

... aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys. Let me live onward; you shall find that, though slower, the progress of my character will liquidate all these debts without injustice to higher claims. If a man should dedicate himself to the payment of notes, would not this be injustice? Does he owe no debt but money? And are all claims on him to be postponed to ...
— Essays, First Series • Ralph Waldo Emerson


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