English Dictionary

liquidate

/ˈlɪkwədeɪt/

verb

(transitive) To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount. / (transitive) To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.

The company decided to liquidate its assets and close down.

意味（1）

(transitive) To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.

Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins.

意味（2）

(transitive) To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.

意味（3）

(transitive) To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem.

Her only relative was a niece in Boston, who arranged for a local lawyer to liquidate Mrs. Garner’s property.

意味（4）

(law, transitive) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) 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.

意味（5）

(transitive) To do away with.

How far progress has been made in liquidating the locomotive stock of the old companies may be judged from the shrinkage in their numbers, by some 50 per cent. at the end of 1931, to about 35 per cent. in 1938.

意味（6）

(transitive) To kill.

意味（7）

(obsolete, transitive) To make clear and intelligible.

Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system.

意味（8）

(obsolete, transitive) To make liquid.