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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
liquidator
noun
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▪ A liquidator was appointed for one of the companies, and actions were commenced against the guarantors.
▪ As a result, the liquidator estimates the company is owed £1.6 million for machines that were never paid for.
▪ Bosses at Reads in Bootle called in the liquidator after battling for more than a year against cash flow problems.
▪ But the financial press was premature in reporting Cork Gully's appointment as liquidator.
▪ Liquidation World acts as a liquidator for banks, receivers, insurance companies and others.
▪ The liquidator of the sole company in liquidation indeed assigned the cause of action to him.
▪ The recession deepened as the 1870s proceeded, and by 1879 Skerne Iron Works had called in the liquidator.
▪ The statements had furthermore been made in confidence and the liquidators claimed public interest immunity.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liquidator

Liquidator \Liq"ui*da`tor\ (l[i^]k"w[i^]*d[=a]`t[~e]r), n. [Cf. F. liquidateur.]

  1. One who, or that which, liquidates.

  2. An officer appointed to conduct the winding up of a company, to bring and defend actions and suits in its name, and to do all necessary acts on behalf of the company. [Eng.]
    --Mozley & W.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
liquidator

1825, agent noun in Latin form from liquidate.

Wiktionary
liquidator

n. 1 One who liquidates. 2 One supporting the political policy of liquidationism; a liquidationist. 3 Any of the workers involved in cleaning up the (w: Chernobyl disaster)

WordNet
liquidator
  1. n. a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) [syn: murderer, manslayer]

  2. (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties [syn: receiver]

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Liquidator

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Liquidator (law)

In law, a liquidator is the officer appointed when a company goes into winding-up or liquidation who has responsibility for collecting in all of the assets of the company and settling all claims against the company before putting the company into dissolution.

Usage examples of "liquidator".

The daughter of the celebrated painter, Joseph Vernet,[29] was guillotined for being a " receiver," for having kept fifty pounds of candles in her house, distributed among the employees of La Muette by the liquidators of the civil list.