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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
liquid assets
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At certain times, banks may decide that it is prudent to hold a bigger proportion of liquid assets.
▪ But then the discount houses in turn may be short of liquid assets to meet this demand.
▪ Consider the following simple illustration of a one bank economy where a 10 percent liquid assets ratio must be maintained.
▪ The need for short-term, highly liquid assets is low.
▪ They may also do so if they anticipate that their liquid assets may soon be squeezed by government monetary policy.
▪ This is M4plus various other holdings of liquid assets.
▪ Why do building societies hold a higher proportion of liquid assets than do pension funds? 2.
▪ With a 10 percent liquid assets ratio what will be the new balance sheet figures? 7.
WordNet
liquid assets

n. assets in the form of cash (or easily convertible into cash) [syn: quick assets]

Usage examples of "liquid assets".

Red Cloud, on her part, foresaw that a flood of news stories, generating an intense public interest on the eve of Salvation's arrival, would pave the way for new bond issues, essential now that her liquid assets were so heavily committed to the Salvation.

He had a number of personas scattered around the world, most with impeccable credit references, even if they were currently short of liquid assets.

If, as I suspect, you lack the liquid assets necessary to close such a transaction, I will accept your word as a nobleman, and not think of being repaid until after you have had the leisure to plumb all of these obligations into adequate sources of revenue.

And, by certain accounting methods, over two hundred percent of the liquid assets rested in the bank.

The primary store of liquid assets, in their trade, and not likely to be let out of the wearer's reach.

He does not have one single dollar left in liquid assets in the Liberian and Panamanian companies.

There was also a chancewa very small chance, but still a chance--that he would be able to get his bar back, and he was also pretty sure now that his liquid assets were still intact.

He said that for the good of the bank, and to save me and my family from the kind of publicity an indictment would bring, regardless of my decision on whether or not to let the Feds clean out all the liquid assets in the Lewellen girl's inheritance, he would go ahead and try to erase all traces of my involvement in the debenture swindle.

She hadn't owned any real property, but her liquid assets came to a little under five hundred thousand dollars.

I merely wished to point out that there are many ways that payment can be made, and that liquid assets are only one form.