LIQUIDATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liquidation mean? 

• LIQUIDATION (noun)
  The noun LIQUIDATION has 3 senses:

1. termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities

2. the act of exterminating

3. the murder of a competitor

  Familiarity information: LIQUIDATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIQUIDATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

liquidation; settlement

Hypernyms ("liquidation" is a kind of...):

conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "liquidation"):

viatical settlement; viaticus settlement (sale of an insurance policy by a terminally ill policy holder)

Derivation:

liquidate (eliminate by paying off (debts))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of exterminating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

extermination; liquidation

Hypernyms ("liquidation" is a kind of...):

destruction; devastation (the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The murder of a competitor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

elimination; liquidation

Hypernyms ("liquidation" is a kind of...):

execution; murder; slaying (unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being)

Derivation:

liquidate (get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing)

 Context examples 

The concept does not refer to redemption or liquidation of stocks issued by the company.

(Market Withdrawal, NCI Thesaurus)

Under the temporary pressure of pecuniary liabilities, contracted with a view to their immediate liquidation, but remaining unliquidated through a combination of circumstances, I have been under the necessity of assuming a garb from which my natural instincts recoil—I allude to spectacles—and possessing myself of a cognomen, to which I can establish no legitimate pretensions.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)