liquidation

liquidate | American Dictionary

liquidate
verb[ T ]
us/ˈlɪk·wɪˌdeɪt/
to sell your investments or property to make them available in the form of money:
Investors have started to liquidate their mutual funds.
Someone who liquidates a business closes it and sells what it owns.

liquidation

noun[ U ]us/ˌlɪk·wɪˈdeɪ·ʃən/
The company was forced into liquidation.

liquidate | Business English

liquidate
verb
uk /ˈlɪkwɪdeɪt/us
[ I or T ] LAW, FINANCE
if a business liquidates or is liquidated, it is closed so that its assets can be sold to pay its debts:
The only way for management to return value to shareholders in the short term is to liquidate the company and return the cash.
As the customer of a brokerage that's being liquidated, you should receive a warning in the mail or see notices in the newspaper.
[ T ] ACCOUNTING, FINANCE
to sell something in order to get cash:
She liquidated the stock and pulled about $10,000 from savings to pay off her debt.
In the event of a reclamation, the Fund may liquidate sufficient shares from a shareholder's account to reimburse the government or the private source.
[ T ] ACCOUNTING, FINANCE
to pay off a debt:
They were required to liquidate the debt within 30 days of the date due.

Examples of liquidate

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A significant number of bankrupt firms did not enter the rehabilitation process but were simply liquidated.
First, relocated agents must be given currency or liquidated investment.
Investors were liquidating their portfolios and buying bonds.
Enforces contract provisions intended to protectthe agency, such as warranties or liquidated damages clauses.
A treaty negotiated in 1794 liquidated this policy, initiating a decade of fairly smooth relations.
As uncertainty mounted about the stability of key currencies, central banks liquidated their foreign-exchange balances and scrambled to replace them with gold reserves.
Central banks joined the fray, liquidating their foreign securities to avoid capital losses in the event of a foreign devaluation.
Most rents were stipulated in kind, although they were frequently liquidated in cash.
Precautionary savings include the use of food stock, livestock, and financial assets (no households liquidated productive capital such as land and fishing nets).
At delivery, he bought another ten index futures for delivery at the end of the year, when he would otherwise have liquidated his share portfolio.
If it liquidated the trust, however, in order to hold the underlying assets directly, it would face liquidation costs including compensation to the existing management.
Reciprocal accounts were less important once foreign exchange reserves were liquidated, and co-operative effort was no longer necessary to protect sterling.
Tactically, the operation was broken down into several localised campaigns with the aim of encircling, dispersing and liquidating the rebels.
In this case the solution to (5) is not unique, because the bank is indifferent between liquidating investment and borrowing from the discount window.
If the trader does not meet the call for variation margin, the clearinghouse suspends his trading privileges and liquidates the position.
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