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The property of flowing easily
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liquidity
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ 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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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 ] the property of flowing easily [syn: fluidity , fluidness , liquidness ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
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 ...
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.