LIQUIDITY CRISIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liquidity crisis mean? 

• LIQUIDITY CRISIS (noun)
  The noun LIQUIDITY CRISIS has 1 sense:

1. a state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to businesses and consumers and interest rates are high

  Familiarity information: LIQUIDITY CRISIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIQUIDITY CRISIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to businesses and consumers and interest rates are high

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

credit crunch; liquidity crisis; squeeze

Hypernyms ("liquidity crisis" is a kind of...):

financial condition (the condition of (corporate or personal) finances)