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Liquidation ( 2007 ) (, Likvidatsiya) is a highly popular Russian television series, which parallels the famous The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed with notable ethical shift. In the "Meeting Place", chief of criminal investigations Gleb Zheglov (played ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, noun of action from Late Latin liquidare (see liquidate ); originally as a legal term in reference to assets; of inconvenient groups of persons, 1925 in communist writings.
WordNet
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n. termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities [syn: settlement ] the act of exterminating [syn: extermination ] the murder of a competitor [syn: elimination ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Liquidation \Liq`ui*da"tion\ (l[i^]k`w[i^]*d[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated. To go into liquidation (Law), to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a company goes into liquidation (= is closed and sold in order to pay its debts ) COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE voluntary ▪ One member asked for details of how my father had gone into voluntary liquidation . ▪ ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash. 2 The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.
Usage examples of liquidation.
Doubtless the sell-off and liquidation of the machinery and facilities will yield a reasonable profit.
I told you I do not care for the way he is handling this takeover and liquidation of Copeland Marine.
Hence arose immense arrears in the expenditure, and the necessity of appointing a committee of liquidation.
For an early liquidation of Abyssinia there is also the argument that the Italian morale there must be particularly low now, and early finish of the campaign would release large forces for reinforcing our front in the Middle East.
Reichstag fire, the Roehm Blood Purge, the Anschluss with Austria, the surrender of Chamberlain at Munich, the occupation of Czechoslovakia, the attacks on Poland, Scandinavia, the West, the Balkans and Russia, the horrors of the Nazi occupation and of the concentration camps and the liquidation of the Jews.
Munich Hitler had ordered his military chiefs to prepare, along with the liquidation of the remainder of Czechoslovakia, the occupation of Memel.
In other words, Schopenhauer recognizes Kantianism as the definitive liquidation of the humanist revolution.
Defined as a condition of enforced servitude by which the servitor is compelled to labor in liquidation of some debt or obligation, either real or pretended, against his will, peonage was found to have been unconstitutionally sanctioned by an Alabama statute, directed at defaulting sharecroppers, which imposed a criminal liability and subjected to imprisonment farm workers or tenants who abandoned their employment, breached their contracts, and exercised their legal right to enter into employment of a similar nature with another person.
What did thwarting the Chumash Powers have to do with the liquidation of the Aztecian cabinet, for instance?
His liquidation will be of benefit to all departments of our Intelligence apparat.
Perhaps you do not remember that, when I agreed to buy the horse, the price was to be my contribution to the liquidation of those bills.
She had asked the company secretary and the group's chief financial officer to prepare a contingency plan which would involve suspending the company's shares and filing for voluntary liquidation.
The nature of his proposition might well be the liquidation of both companies and the formation of an investment company or trust based on Strode House with some of the same directors.
Their compensation becomes part of the national debt, for the liquidation of which there is the one exhaustless fund.
He went to every auction, flea market, tax sale, bankruptcy liquidation, and barter in these parts, don't you know!