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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
liquidity
noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
low
▪ They may simply go ahead and expand credit, and accept a lower liquidity ratio.
▪ Banks therefore require to hold a lower liquidity ratio, and can create more credit.
▪ The banks have tended to choose a lower liquidity ratio over the years, and certainly a lower cash ratio.
▪ Banks choosing to operate with a lower liquidity ratio could be prevented by the authorities imposing statutory reserve requirements on banks.
▪ Banks, being prepared to operate with a lower liquidity ratio, were only too pleased to supply the credit being demanded.
■ NOUN
preference
▪ The liquidity preference curve will tend to be less elastic.
▪ A rising yield curve can be explained by liquidity preference theory.
▪ Are shoppers somehow at fault if they have no concept of liquidity preference?
▪ This is simply the result of a downward sloping liquidity preference curve.
▪ The phenomenon of liquidity preference can find no place in a model that admits of only one asset, fiat money.
▪ The more elastic the liquidity preference curve, the more idle balances will fall.
ratio
▪ Banks' liquidity ratio may vary Banks may choose a different liquidity ratio.
▪ They may simply go ahead and expand credit, and accept a lower liquidity ratio.
▪ An example of a statutory liquidity ratio was the minimum 121/2 percent reserve assets ratio imposed on banks from 1971 to 1981.
▪ The ratio of an institution's liquid assets to illiquid assets is known as its liquidity ratio.
▪ If a financial institution's liquidity ratio is too high, it will make too little profit.
▪ Profitability High liquidity ratios indicate short-term financial strength but do not measure efficiency of utilization of resources.
▪ In other words, the banks operate a 10 percent liquidity ratio.
■ VERB
provide
▪ And banks now provide almost as much liquidity for private securities as for public ones.
▪ The agency says it relied on a government commitment to provide liquidity, but the government reneged.
reduce
▪ The attempt to reduce liquidity in the economy through high real interest rates was the government's main mistake.
▪ Since bills are a reserve of banks, this too will reduce banks' liquidity.
▪ Open-market operations should therefore be much more effective in reducing general liquidity than in reducing the monetary base.
▪ In all three cases net sterling payments to the government's accounts at the Bank reduce market liquidity.
▪ Buyers are temporarily too liquid and therefore wish to reduce liquidity by buying.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But they must always have sufficient liquidity to cover the possibility of any withdrawals.
▪ In order of priority, these criteria are safety, liquidity, and yield.
▪ The attraction of options and futures, our specialty item, was that they offered both liquidity and fantastic leverage.
▪ The balance of items in this range is influenced by two important considerations: profitability and liquidity.
▪ The incentive to borrow was raised still further by a reduction in the costs of bankruptcy and an increase in market liquidity.
▪ The second liquidity need is the same liquidity need that individuals have-firms need to maintain some cash balances to meet unexpected emergencies.
▪ Thus far we have seen that current assets are listed in order of liquidity, or nearness to cash.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liquidity

Liquidity \Li*quid"i*ty\ (l[i^]*kw[i^]d"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [L. liquiditas, fr. liquidus liquid: cf. F. liquidit['e].] The state or quality of being liquid.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
liquidity

1610s, "quality of being liquid," from Late Latin liquiditatem (nominative liquiditas), from Latin liquidus (see liquid). Meaning "quality of being financially liquid" is from 1897.

Wiktionary
liquidity

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state or property of being liquid. 2 (context economics countable English) An asset's property of being able to be sold without affecting its value; the degree to which it can be easily converted into cash. 3 (context finance English) Availability of cash over short term: ability to service short-term debt.

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liquidity

  1. n. the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility [syn: liquid, liquidness]

  2. the property of flowing easily [syn: fluidity, fluidness, liquidness, runniness]

  3. being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability

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Usage examples of "liquidity".

Tom Thorpe two weeks earlier, SierraCorp was facing a short-term liquidity crisis.

With the conventional accompaniment of rattle and postlude of rictus and liquidity.

As I recall, he says this kid is normal in his drives, given his age, liquidity, and his social background.

But once on the ground, the Gekir chief supported herself on her four rear legs and raised her short torso and long neck in something of a centauroid fashion, although even ripples of skin under the fur gave an impression not of Dillian rigidity but almost of liquidity.

Although Nicola's kisses sometimes shocked him - with their liquidity, their penetration, their hunger her inhibition was unassailable, without blindspots, and impressively intransigent.

And he was away, his voice full of passionate connoisseurship, with many parallels and precedents, Italian banking, liquidity preference, composition fallacy, hyperinflation, business confidence syndrome, booms and panics, US corporations, the sobriety of financial architecture, the Bust of '29, the suicides on La Salle and Wall Street.

It had seemed to Gately after he found out about it a suicidal-type risk, since if any of these long-shots ever actually won Fackelmann would be responsible for giving the bettor his winnings from 'Whitey' meaning it would be Sorkin that would hear the complaint if Fackelmann didn't come up with the $ on his own and get it to the bettor and the whole crew's pharmacological expenses meant they always existed on the absolutest margins of liquidity, at least that's what Gately and Kite (according to Kite) had always thought.

Nobody over there is any farther than a general strike away from a major national liquidity crisis, and when that happens you need friends.

Maybe they were students on the Grand Tour, or a troupe of workers caught up in one of those unusual vortices of labor market liquidity that made it cheaper to take the workers where the work was rather than vice versa.