Liquidation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  liquidation
       n 1: termination of a business operation by using its assets to
            discharge its liabilities [syn: {settlement}]
       2: the act of exterminating [syn: {extermination}]
       3: the murder of a competitor [syn: {elimination}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  141 Moby Thesaurus words for "liquidation":
     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