Associations to the word «Liquidate»

Wiktionary

LIQUIDATE, verb. (transitive) To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
LIQUIDATE, verb. (transitive) To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
LIQUIDATE, verb. (transitive) To convert (assets) into cash.
LIQUIDATE, verb. (transitive) To do away with.
LIQUIDATE, verb. (transitive) To kill.
LIQUIDATE, verb. (legal) (transitive) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain.
LIQUIDATE, verb. (obsolete) (transitive) To make clear and intelligible.
LIQUIDATE, verb. (obsolete) (transitive) To make liquid.

Dictionary definition

LIQUIDATE, verb. Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized".
LIQUIDATE, verb. Eliminate by paying off (debts).
LIQUIDATE, verb. Convert into cash; "I had to liquidate my holdings to pay off my ex-husband".
LIQUIDATE, verb. Settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off; "liquidate a company".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin