Crossword clues for liquidated
liquidated
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liquidate \Liq"ui*date\ (l[i^]k"w[i^]*d[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liquidated (-d[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Liquidating.] [LL. liquidatus, p. p. of liquidare to liquidate, fr. L. liquidus liquid, clear. See Liquid.]
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(Law) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness) clear and certain.
A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law.
--15 Ga. Rep. 321.If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated, I believe you would be brought in considerable debtor.
--Chesterfield. In an extended sense: To ascertain the amount, or the several amounts, of, and apply assets toward the discharge of (an indebtedness).
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To discharge; to pay off or settle, as an indebtedness.
Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins.
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To make clear and intelligible.
Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system.
--A. Hamilton. To make liquid. [Obs.]
To convert (assets) into cash.
To kill; -- used mostly of governments or organizations killing their enemies; as, Stalin liquidated many of the Kulaks.
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To dissolve (an organization); to terminate (an activity).
Liquidated damages (Law), damages the amount of which is fixed or ascertained.
--Abbott.
Wiktionary
(context legal English) set; ascertained; made certain by operation of law. v
(en-past of: liquidate)
Usage examples of "liquidated".
If he’s a phony and thought he was being liquidated by his own side, he ought to have yelled something to that effect.
Murdered, liquidated, just an hour before we could get the surveillance team around him.
The news that the British spy he had denounced had been so conveniently liquidated had evidently shaken him.
At his very first meeting with the Lizards, not long after their invasion, he'd had the pleasure of letting them know that the Soviets had liquidated the Tsar and his family.
And he hoped mentioning that Goldfarb was a Jew wouldn't get Moishe Russie's relative liquidated out of hand.
Without him, Beria's men might have liquidated me even with Red Army troops filling Dzerzhinsky Square.
Have any of us forgotten what he did, the people liquidated under his regime, for him to get to the pinnacle of power in Soviet Russia?
He read everything he could get his hands on as the first years of the seventh decade dawned: the classics of Taras Shevchenko and those who wrote in the brief flower-ing under Lenin, suppressed and liquidated under Stalin.
If they refused to accommodate the Viet Minh, the terrorists liquidated them without mercy.
Had we been here, instead of the French, we might have turned Indochina into a country of women and children only, but the Viet Minh would have been liquidated a long time ago.
A dozen terrorists could be liquidated before their comrades realized that they were under attack.
No doubt she had cashed in heavily when she liquidated her jewels, real estate, fine paintings, and family heirlooms.
She must have been worth millions around the time she liquidated everything.
The bank records show huge cash deposits at the time she liquidated everything.
We lost everything—but that was better than being among the tens of millions liquidated by Chairman Mao.