Definition of liquidate in English:

liquidate

verb ˈlɪkwɪdeɪtˈlɪkwəˌdeɪt

[with object]

1Wind up the affairs of (a business) by ascertaining liabilities and apportioning assets.
清算（公司债务、资产等）
if the company was liquidated, there would be enough funds released to honour the debts
Example sentencesExamples
- Management was threatening to liquidate the company if it did not receive adequate concessions.
- In some cases employers have deliberately established shelf companies without assets, in order to avoid paying out entitlements when they liquidate their businesses.
- Some have shut businesses and liquidated entire companies just to collect the cash in the till.
- They worried that some newspaper organizations essentially, if unwittingly, are liquidating their businesses.
- I always enjoy the arguments presented in favor of liquidating our business.
- Whenever one becomes insolvent, liquidate it and create a new one under new management.
- The corporate raider said in a statement last week it intends to sell off or liquidate the business if no buyer comes forward, with the potential loss of 50 jobs.
- You can liquidate their business if they don't pay the money.
- They then liquidate the business and, hopefully, share out the profits.
- And she is still fighting the same ‘renegade’ IRS agent, who, she says, seems hell-bent on liquidating the business.
- The first company is then liquidated, and its capital repaid to its shareholders.
- One woman was forced to liquidate her business for lack of funds.
- Organizations can be disbanded, and, indeed, frequently are, as when, for example, businesses are liquidated.
- In a liquidation, the holding company bond investors only recover what's left after the assets of the subsidiaries are liquidated to pay off the creditors of those subsidiaries - usually banks and trade creditors.
- The trustee's job is to liquidate bankrupt companies to repay bondholders.
- How is liquidating an Internet company different from dissolving any other type of company?
- Rather than handing it more taxpayer dollars, it should liquidate this railroad and allow private companies to salvage the potentially profitable routes.
- Launched in August, it employed 10 people but at a recent board meeting it was decided to liquidate the business because of failure to make enough money or find extra funding.
- Its retail business was ultimately liquidated in 2000.
- Book value is the value of a company's assets if they were liquidated.
Synonyms
close down, wind up, put into liquidation, dissolve, break up, disband, terminate
1. 1.1no object (of a business) go into liquidation.
  the company would have the strength to reorganize and not be forced to liquidate
  Example sentencesExamples
  Without the cost savings, it said it would be forced to liquidate by February.
  After years of struggles and being unable to recognize the changing market, last October, it finally gave up the ghost and decided to liquidate.
  Overwhelmingly, those businesses liquidate because of dynamic, control and business reasons.
  If the point is reached where the financial returns are no longer attractive, your business will liquidate as your investors and lenders put their money elsewhere.
  Investing in a company that is liquidating is playing in a high-risk arena that can be lucrative when done right.
  Since its members will likely get next to nothing if it liquidates, the committee is now seen as an ally to the airline's bid for survival.
2. 1.2 Convert (assets) into cash.
  将（资产）变现，变卖
  a plan to liquidate £1 billion worth of property over seven years
  七年内将价值10亿英镑的资产变现的计划。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The family liquidated their holdings in the company last October.
  All of the estate's assets have been liquidated.
  Also, speculators still had many units on hand and had been liquidating their holdings.
  Police believe he has since liquidated his assets and transferred them to the Republic of Ireland.
  The finance giants have liquidated their assets, and their grand banking halls have found a new lease of life as dens of iniquity of a different sort.
  The activity of the collateral is the speed at which it can be liquidated and converted into cash.
  The consumer operation will keep running for a few weeks to liquidate inventory.
  Obviously, liquidators must follow the same rules you do when the inventory being liquidated is firearms.
  Based on the revised data for third-quarter gross domestic product, businesses liquidated inventories last quarter at the fastest rate in any quarter since World War II.
  But, until the assets have been liquidated and the resulting court cases completed, nobody knows what the final cost to shareholders will be.
  If you sell, you liquidate an asset that might otherwise be a worry.
  The rails were pulled up, the assets liquidated, and the line abandoned.
  Many people are forced to reallocate household budgets away from spending on schooling and healthcare, to change their living arrangements, and to liquidate their assets in order to smooth consumption during a crisis.
  Even if it means selling off their valuable assets and liquidating their monitory investments to do so, it must urgently be done.
  It has since ceased all operations in Mexico and liquidated its assets there.
  It might sound plausible, ‘but what it really tells you is that the company is liquidating assets - and that's not good’.
  John Thomas Molson retired and liquidated the distilling assets his father had left him.
  Rather than go bankrupt, he liquidated the remaining assets from the failed project and paid off almost all of his debts.
  The only way out from the deadlock situation is to liquidate the scandalous holding and start anew.
  As businesses liquidated inventories, they decreased their indebtedness to banks and acquired government debt.
  Synonyms
  convert to cash, convert, cash, cash in, sell off, sell up, realize
3. 1.3 Pay off (a debt)
  清偿（债务）
  the fund was raided for purposes other than liquidating the public debt
  Example sentencesExamples
  If the Scottish parliament was jealous of its honour, the least it could have done was direct that the first year's pension money should be paid to Westminster to liquidate this debt.
  Sales of vast tracts of land belonging to religious houses and the former rulers also provided the capital needed to liquidate the debts of the ancien régime and establish state and public finances on a new and more solid basis.
  One wonders how the inoperative council is supposed to generate the much needed finances to liquidate the debts.
  He proposed that the first step towards liquidating the short-term debt should be through a limited issue of paper money by a National Bank.
  During this period the German currency collapsed into hyperinflation, bankrupting entire sections of the middle class, but benefiting sections of industry which were able to liquidate their debts.
  He says that the first option he proposed was to sell its equipment and liquidate its debts.
  Synonyms
  pay off, pay, pay in full, settle, clear, discharge, square, make good, honour, defray, satisfy, account for
  remit
2informal Kill (someone), typically by violent means.
除掉，杀戮
nationalist rivals and critics were liquidated in bloody purges
Example sentencesExamples
- They point to the fact that, on top of the estimated six million Jews liquidated in the Final Solution, millions of gypsies, homosexuals, political radicals and Soviet prisoners-of-war also met their deaths in the ovens.
- He destroyed what people fought for in 1917 and he physically liquidated many of the people who fought in 1917 because they carried the memory of the revolution.
- Based on the slightest suspicion, I would be totally isolated or liquidated.
- And it was at this very moment I resolved to kill her - liquidate her once and for all so that she could never become a challenge to me.
- He said at the end if I asked another question he'd have me liquidated.
- From the moment you and your people are liquidated like so many dogs you have to retain your importance…
- In the 1930s and 1940s they saw hundreds of thousands of their fellow members liquidated, without a murmur of opposition.
- He was principally concerned with liquidating all the Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto.
- The offender got what he richly deserved and it is a shame more people like that are not liquidated by security guards, police and defence.
- What if the man, who had liquidated her and been subsequently nabbed, were to be hanged for the justice he had meted out?
- In course of time even some European states adopted terrorism to liquidate, wipe out and transplant unwanted peoples.
- If a Global Messiah emerges to popularise the practice of voluntary simplicity and the rejection of Hollywood, will he be liquidated by a robo-assassin?
- In principle, I'm sorry we didn't liquidate him.
- Hardly noticed, they are liquidated in extermination camps.
- I discuss the possibility of having him liquidated with elements of the intelligence community who are on-message, but we reluctantly agree he would be more trouble dead than alive.
- On August 2, 1944, the SS liquidated the Gypsy camp and killed most of the remaining inmates in the gas chambers.
- We should guard against emotionally driven demands to kill many bystanders in an effort to liquidate our enemy.
- All ‘former Trotskyists’ were to be tracked down and liquidated.
- After Mary's murderer brutally kills his cousin/accomplice and nearly liquidates McGee, Travis fakes his death at sea and covertly returns to Florida.
- Sending out a kill squad to liquidate an innocent researcher would just prompt a lot of questions I didn't have any answers to.
Synonyms
massacre, murder, butcher, kill, kill off, annihilate, exterminate, execute, eliminate, destroy, decimate, wipe out, mow down, cut down, cut to pieces, put to the sword, put to death, send to the gas chambers
kill, murder, cause the death of, end the life of, take the life of, do away with, make away with, assassinate, do to death, eliminate, terminate, dispatch, finish off, put to death, execute

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the sense 'set out (accounts) clearly'): from medieval Latin liquidat- 'made clear', from the verb liquidare, from Latin liquidus (see liquid). sense 1 was influenced by Italian liquidare and French liquider, sense 2 by Russian likvidirovatʹ.

Definition of liquidate in US English:

liquidate

verbˈlikwəˌdātˈlɪkwəˌdeɪt

[with object]

1Wind up the affairs of (a company or firm) by ascertaining liabilities and apportioning assets.
清算（公司债务、资产等）
Example sentencesExamples
- Management was threatening to liquidate the company if it did not receive adequate concessions.
- They then liquidate the business and, hopefully, share out the profits.
- Whenever one becomes insolvent, liquidate it and create a new one under new management.
- Rather than handing it more taxpayer dollars, it should liquidate this railroad and allow private companies to salvage the potentially profitable routes.
- You can liquidate their business if they don't pay the money.
- Launched in August, it employed 10 people but at a recent board meeting it was decided to liquidate the business because of failure to make enough money or find extra funding.
- In a liquidation, the holding company bond investors only recover what's left after the assets of the subsidiaries are liquidated to pay off the creditors of those subsidiaries - usually banks and trade creditors.
- They worried that some newspaper organizations essentially, if unwittingly, are liquidating their businesses.
- How is liquidating an Internet company different from dissolving any other type of company?
- Its retail business was ultimately liquidated in 2000.
- And she is still fighting the same ‘renegade’ IRS agent, who, she says, seems hell-bent on liquidating the business.
- The first company is then liquidated, and its capital repaid to its shareholders.
- In some cases employers have deliberately established shelf companies without assets, in order to avoid paying out entitlements when they liquidate their businesses.
- Some have shut businesses and liquidated entire companies just to collect the cash in the till.
- The trustee's job is to liquidate bankrupt companies to repay bondholders.
- Book value is the value of a company's assets if they were liquidated.
- Organizations can be disbanded, and, indeed, frequently are, as when, for example, businesses are liquidated.
- I always enjoy the arguments presented in favor of liquidating our business.
- One woman was forced to liquidate her business for lack of funds.
- The corporate raider said in a statement last week it intends to sell off or liquidate the business if no buyer comes forward, with the potential loss of 50 jobs.
Synonyms
close down, wind up, put into liquidation, dissolve, break up, disband, terminate
1. 1.1no object (of a company) undergo liquidation.
  （公司）清算（债务、资产等）
  Example sentencesExamples
  After years of struggles and being unable to recognize the changing market, last October, it finally gave up the ghost and decided to liquidate.
  Since its members will likely get next to nothing if it liquidates, the committee is now seen as an ally to the airline's bid for survival.
  Overwhelmingly, those businesses liquidate because of dynamic, control and business reasons.
  If the point is reached where the financial returns are no longer attractive, your business will liquidate as your investors and lenders put their money elsewhere.
  Investing in a company that is liquidating is playing in a high-risk arena that can be lucrative when done right.
  Without the cost savings, it said it would be forced to liquidate by February.
2. 1.2 Convert (assets) into cash.
  将（资产）变现，变卖
  a plan to liquidate $10,000,000 worth of property over seven years
  七年内将价值10亿英镑的资产变现的计划。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The only way out from the deadlock situation is to liquidate the scandalous holding and start anew.
  Many people are forced to reallocate household budgets away from spending on schooling and healthcare, to change their living arrangements, and to liquidate their assets in order to smooth consumption during a crisis.
  But, until the assets have been liquidated and the resulting court cases completed, nobody knows what the final cost to shareholders will be.
  As businesses liquidated inventories, they decreased their indebtedness to banks and acquired government debt.
  Rather than go bankrupt, he liquidated the remaining assets from the failed project and paid off almost all of his debts.
  The family liquidated their holdings in the company last October.
  Obviously, liquidators must follow the same rules you do when the inventory being liquidated is firearms.
  Police believe he has since liquidated his assets and transferred them to the Republic of Ireland.
  It has since ceased all operations in Mexico and liquidated its assets there.
  Also, speculators still had many units on hand and had been liquidating their holdings.
  John Thomas Molson retired and liquidated the distilling assets his father had left him.
  It might sound plausible, ‘but what it really tells you is that the company is liquidating assets - and that's not good’.
  Based on the revised data for third-quarter gross domestic product, businesses liquidated inventories last quarter at the fastest rate in any quarter since World War II.
  The consumer operation will keep running for a few weeks to liquidate inventory.
  The activity of the collateral is the speed at which it can be liquidated and converted into cash.
  Even if it means selling off their valuable assets and liquidating their monitory investments to do so, it must urgently be done.
  All of the estate's assets have been liquidated.
  The rails were pulled up, the assets liquidated, and the line abandoned.
  If you sell, you liquidate an asset that might otherwise be a worry.
  The finance giants have liquidated their assets, and their grand banking halls have found a new lease of life as dens of iniquity of a different sort.
  Synonyms
  convert to cash, convert, cash, cash in, sell off, sell up, realize
3. 1.3 Pay off (a debt).
  清偿（债务）
  Example sentencesExamples
  He says that the first option he proposed was to sell its equipment and liquidate its debts.
  One wonders how the inoperative council is supposed to generate the much needed finances to liquidate the debts.
  If the Scottish parliament was jealous of its honour, the least it could have done was direct that the first year's pension money should be paid to Westminster to liquidate this debt.
  Sales of vast tracts of land belonging to religious houses and the former rulers also provided the capital needed to liquidate the debts of the ancien régime and establish state and public finances on a new and more solid basis.
  He proposed that the first step towards liquidating the short-term debt should be through a limited issue of paper money by a National Bank.
  During this period the German currency collapsed into hyperinflation, bankrupting entire sections of the middle class, but benefiting sections of industry which were able to liquidate their debts.
  Synonyms
  pay off, pay, pay in full, settle, clear, discharge, square, make good, honour, defray, satisfy, account for
2informal Eliminate, typically by violent means; kill.
除掉，杀戮
Example sentencesExamples
- The offender got what he richly deserved and it is a shame more people like that are not liquidated by security guards, police and defence.
- From the moment you and your people are liquidated like so many dogs you have to retain your importance…
- What if the man, who had liquidated her and been subsequently nabbed, were to be hanged for the justice he had meted out?
- All ‘former Trotskyists’ were to be tracked down and liquidated.
- After Mary's murderer brutally kills his cousin/accomplice and nearly liquidates McGee, Travis fakes his death at sea and covertly returns to Florida.
- We should guard against emotionally driven demands to kill many bystanders in an effort to liquidate our enemy.
- I discuss the possibility of having him liquidated with elements of the intelligence community who are on-message, but we reluctantly agree he would be more trouble dead than alive.
- He destroyed what people fought for in 1917 and he physically liquidated many of the people who fought in 1917 because they carried the memory of the revolution.
- He was principally concerned with liquidating all the Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto.
- In the 1930s and 1940s they saw hundreds of thousands of their fellow members liquidated, without a murmur of opposition.
- He said at the end if I asked another question he'd have me liquidated.
- In course of time even some European states adopted terrorism to liquidate, wipe out and transplant unwanted peoples.
- Hardly noticed, they are liquidated in extermination camps.
- Based on the slightest suspicion, I would be totally isolated or liquidated.
- In principle, I'm sorry we didn't liquidate him.
- If a Global Messiah emerges to popularise the practice of voluntary simplicity and the rejection of Hollywood, will he be liquidated by a robo-assassin?
- They point to the fact that, on top of the estimated six million Jews liquidated in the Final Solution, millions of gypsies, homosexuals, political radicals and Soviet prisoners-of-war also met their deaths in the ovens.
- On August 2, 1944, the SS liquidated the Gypsy camp and killed most of the remaining inmates in the gas chambers.
- Sending out a kill squad to liquidate an innocent researcher would just prompt a lot of questions I didn't have any answers to.
- And it was at this very moment I resolved to kill her - liquidate her once and for all so that she could never become a challenge to me.
Synonyms
massacre, murder, butcher, kill, kill off, annihilate, exterminate, execute, eliminate, destroy, decimate, wipe out, mow down, cut down, cut to pieces, put to the sword, put to death, send to the gas chambers
kill, murder, cause the death of, end the life of, take the life of, do away with, make away with, assassinate, do to death, eliminate, terminate, dispatch, finish off, put to death, execute

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘set out (accounts) clearly’): from medieval Latin liquidat- ‘made clear’, from the verb liquidare, from Latin liquidus (see liquid). liquidate (sense 1) was influenced by Italian liquidare and French liquider, liquidate (sense 2) by Russian likvidirovatʹ.

单词	liquidate
释义	Definition of liquidate in English: liquidate verb ˈlɪkwɪdeɪtˈlɪkwəˌdeɪt [with object] 1Wind up the affairs of (a business) by ascertaining liabilities and apportioning assets. 清算（公司债务、资产等） if the company was liquidated, there would be enough funds released to honour the debts Example sentencesExamples Management was threatening to liquidate the company if it did not receive adequate concessions. In some cases employers have deliberately established shelf companies without assets, in order to avoid paying out entitlements when they liquidate their businesses. Some have shut businesses and liquidated entire companies just to collect the cash in the till. They worried that some newspaper organizations essentially, if unwittingly, are liquidating their businesses. I always enjoy the arguments presented in favor of liquidating our business. Whenever one becomes insolvent, liquidate it and create a new one under new management. The corporate raider said in a statement last week it intends to sell off or liquidate the business if no buyer comes forward, with the potential loss of 50 jobs. You can liquidate their business if they don't pay the money. They then liquidate the business and, hopefully, share out the profits. And she is still fighting the same ‘renegade’ IRS agent, who, she says, seems hell-bent on liquidating the business. The first company is then liquidated, and its capital repaid to its shareholders. One woman was forced to liquidate her business for lack of funds. Organizations can be disbanded, and, indeed, frequently are, as when, for example, businesses are liquidated. In a liquidation, the holding company bond investors only recover what's left after the assets of the subsidiaries are liquidated to pay off the creditors of those subsidiaries - usually banks and trade creditors. The trustee's job is to liquidate bankrupt companies to repay bondholders. How is liquidating an Internet company different from dissolving any other type of company? Rather than handing it more taxpayer dollars, it should liquidate this railroad and allow private companies to salvage the potentially profitable routes. Launched in August, it employed 10 people but at a recent board meeting it was decided to liquidate the business because of failure to make enough money or find extra funding. Its retail business was ultimately liquidated in 2000. Book value is the value of a company's assets if they were liquidated. Synonyms close down, wind up, put into liquidation, dissolve, break up, disband, terminate 1.1no object (of a business) go into liquidation. the company would have the strength to reorganize and not be forced to liquidate Example sentencesExamples Without the cost savings, it said it would be forced to liquidate by February. After years of struggles and being unable to recognize the changing market, last October, it finally gave up the ghost and decided to liquidate. Overwhelmingly, those businesses liquidate because of dynamic, control and business reasons. If the point is reached where the financial returns are no longer attractive, your business will liquidate as your investors and lenders put their money elsewhere. Investing in a company that is liquidating is playing in a high-risk arena that can be lucrative when done right. Since its members will likely get next to nothing if it liquidates, the committee is now seen as an ally to the airline's bid for survival. 1.2 Convert (assets) into cash. 将（资产）变现，变卖 a plan to liquidate £1 billion worth of property over seven years 七年内将价值10亿英镑的资产变现的计划。 Example sentencesExamples The family liquidated their holdings in the company last October. All of the estate's assets have been liquidated. Also, speculators still had many units on hand and had been liquidating their holdings. Police believe he has since liquidated his assets and transferred them to the Republic of Ireland. The finance giants have liquidated their assets, and their grand banking halls have found a new lease of life as dens of iniquity of a different sort. The activity of the collateral is the speed at which it can be liquidated and converted into cash. The consumer operation will keep running for a few weeks to liquidate inventory. Obviously, liquidators must follow the same rules you do when the inventory being liquidated is firearms. Based on the revised data for third-quarter gross domestic product, businesses liquidated inventories last quarter at the fastest rate in any quarter since World War II. But, until the assets have been liquidated and the resulting court cases completed, nobody knows what the final cost to shareholders will be. If you sell, you liquidate an asset that might otherwise be a worry. The rails were pulled up, the assets liquidated, and the line abandoned. Many people are forced to reallocate household budgets away from spending on schooling and healthcare, to change their living arrangements, and to liquidate their assets in order to smooth consumption during a crisis. Even if it means selling off their valuable assets and liquidating their monitory investments to do so, it must urgently be done. It has since ceased all operations in Mexico and liquidated its assets there. It might sound plausible, ‘but what it really tells you is that the company is liquidating assets - and that's not good’. John Thomas Molson retired and liquidated the distilling assets his father had left him. Rather than go bankrupt, he liquidated the remaining assets from the failed project and paid off almost all of his debts. The only way out from the deadlock situation is to liquidate the scandalous holding and start anew. As businesses liquidated inventories, they decreased their indebtedness to banks and acquired government debt. Synonyms convert to cash, convert, cash, cash in, sell off, sell up, realize 1.3 Pay off (a debt) 清偿（债务） the fund was raided for purposes other than liquidating the public debt Example sentencesExamples If the Scottish parliament was jealous of its honour, the least it could have done was direct that the first year's pension money should be paid to Westminster to liquidate this debt. Sales of vast tracts of land belonging to religious houses and the former rulers also provided the capital needed to liquidate the debts of the ancien régime and establish state and public finances on a new and more solid basis. One wonders how the inoperative council is supposed to generate the much needed finances to liquidate the debts. He proposed that the first step towards liquidating the short-term debt should be through a limited issue of paper money by a National Bank. During this period the German currency collapsed into hyperinflation, bankrupting entire sections of the middle class, but benefiting sections of industry which were able to liquidate their debts. He says that the first option he proposed was to sell its equipment and liquidate its debts. Synonyms pay off, pay, pay in full, settle, clear, discharge, square, make good, honour, defray, satisfy, account for remit 2informal Kill (someone), typically by violent means. 除掉，杀戮 nationalist rivals and critics were liquidated in bloody purges Example sentencesExamples They point to the fact that, on top of the estimated six million Jews liquidated in the Final Solution, millions of gypsies, homosexuals, political radicals and Soviet prisoners-of-war also met their deaths in the ovens. He destroyed what people fought for in 1917 and he physically liquidated many of the people who fought in 1917 because they carried the memory of the revolution. Based on the slightest suspicion, I would be totally isolated or liquidated. And it was at this very moment I resolved to kill her - liquidate her once and for all so that she could never become a challenge to me. He said at the end if I asked another question he'd have me liquidated. From the moment you and your people are liquidated like so many dogs you have to retain your importance… In the 1930s and 1940s they saw hundreds of thousands of their fellow members liquidated, without a murmur of opposition. He was principally concerned with liquidating all the Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto. The offender got what he richly deserved and it is a shame more people like that are not liquidated by security guards, police and defence. What if the man, who had liquidated her and been subsequently nabbed, were to be hanged for the justice he had meted out? In course of time even some European states adopted terrorism to liquidate, wipe out and transplant unwanted peoples. If a Global Messiah emerges to popularise the practice of voluntary simplicity and the rejection of Hollywood, will he be liquidated by a robo-assassin? In principle, I'm sorry we didn't liquidate him. Hardly noticed, they are liquidated in extermination camps. I discuss the possibility of having him liquidated with elements of the intelligence community who are on-message, but we reluctantly agree he would be more trouble dead than alive. On August 2, 1944, the SS liquidated the Gypsy camp and killed most of the remaining inmates in the gas chambers. We should guard against emotionally driven demands to kill many bystanders in an effort to liquidate our enemy. All ‘former Trotskyists’ were to be tracked down and liquidated. After Mary's murderer brutally kills his cousin/accomplice and nearly liquidates McGee, Travis fakes his death at sea and covertly returns to Florida. Sending out a kill squad to liquidate an innocent researcher would just prompt a lot of questions I didn't have any answers to. Synonyms massacre, murder, butcher, kill, kill off, annihilate, exterminate, execute, eliminate, destroy, decimate, wipe out, mow down, cut down, cut to pieces, put to the sword, put to death, send to the gas chambers kill, murder, cause the death of, end the life of, take the life of, do away with, make away with, assassinate, do to death, eliminate, terminate, dispatch, finish off, put to death, execute Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense 'set out (accounts) clearly'): from medieval Latin liquidat- 'made clear', from the verb liquidare, from Latin liquidus (see liquid). sense 1 was influenced by Italian liquidare and French liquider, sense 2 by Russian likvidirovatʹ. Definition of liquidate in US English: liquidate verbˈlikwəˌdātˈlɪkwəˌdeɪt [with object] 1Wind up the affairs of (a company or firm) by ascertaining liabilities and apportioning assets. 清算（公司债务、资产等） Example sentencesExamples Management was threatening to liquidate the company if it did not receive adequate concessions. They then liquidate the business and, hopefully, share out the profits. Whenever one becomes insolvent, liquidate it and create a new one under new management. Rather than handing it more taxpayer dollars, it should liquidate this railroad and allow private companies to salvage the potentially profitable routes. You can liquidate their business if they don't pay the money. Launched in August, it employed 10 people but at a recent board meeting it was decided to liquidate the business because of failure to make enough money or find extra funding. In a liquidation, the holding company bond investors only recover what's left after the assets of the subsidiaries are liquidated to pay off the creditors of those subsidiaries - usually banks and trade creditors. They worried that some newspaper organizations essentially, if unwittingly, are liquidating their businesses. How is liquidating an Internet company different from dissolving any other type of company? Its retail business was ultimately liquidated in 2000. And she is still fighting the same ‘renegade’ IRS agent, who, she says, seems hell-bent on liquidating the business. The first company is then liquidated, and its capital repaid to its shareholders. In some cases employers have deliberately established shelf companies without assets, in order to avoid paying out entitlements when they liquidate their businesses. Some have shut businesses and liquidated entire companies just to collect the cash in the till. The trustee's job is to liquidate bankrupt companies to repay bondholders. Book value is the value of a company's assets if they were liquidated. Organizations can be disbanded, and, indeed, frequently are, as when, for example, businesses are liquidated. I always enjoy the arguments presented in favor of liquidating our business. One woman was forced to liquidate her business for lack of funds. The corporate raider said in a statement last week it intends to sell off or liquidate the business if no buyer comes forward, with the potential loss of 50 jobs. Synonyms close down, wind up, put into liquidation, dissolve, break up, disband, terminate 1.1no object (of a company) undergo liquidation. （公司）清算（债务、资产等） Example sentencesExamples After years of struggles and being unable to recognize the changing market, last October, it finally gave up the ghost and decided to liquidate. Since its members will likely get next to nothing if it liquidates, the committee is now seen as an ally to the airline's bid for survival. Overwhelmingly, those businesses liquidate because of dynamic, control and business reasons. If the point is reached where the financial returns are no longer attractive, your business will liquidate as your investors and lenders put their money elsewhere. Investing in a company that is liquidating is playing in a high-risk arena that can be lucrative when done right. Without the cost savings, it said it would be forced to liquidate by February. 1.2 Convert (assets) into cash. 将（资产）变现，变卖 a plan to liquidate $10,000,000 worth of property over seven years 七年内将价值10亿英镑的资产变现的计划。 Example sentencesExamples The only way out from the deadlock situation is to liquidate the scandalous holding and start anew. Many people are forced to reallocate household budgets away from spending on schooling and healthcare, to change their living arrangements, and to liquidate their assets in order to smooth consumption during a crisis. But, until the assets have been liquidated and the resulting court cases completed, nobody knows what the final cost to shareholders will be. As businesses liquidated inventories, they decreased their indebtedness to banks and acquired government debt. Rather than go bankrupt, he liquidated the remaining assets from the failed project and paid off almost all of his debts. The family liquidated their holdings in the company last October. Obviously, liquidators must follow the same rules you do when the inventory being liquidated is firearms. Police believe he has since liquidated his assets and transferred them to the Republic of Ireland. It has since ceased all operations in Mexico and liquidated its assets there. Also, speculators still had many units on hand and had been liquidating their holdings. John Thomas Molson retired and liquidated the distilling assets his father had left him. It might sound plausible, ‘but what it really tells you is that the company is liquidating assets - and that's not good’. Based on the revised data for third-quarter gross domestic product, businesses liquidated inventories last quarter at the fastest rate in any quarter since World War II. The consumer operation will keep running for a few weeks to liquidate inventory. The activity of the collateral is the speed at which it can be liquidated and converted into cash. Even if it means selling off their valuable assets and liquidating their monitory investments to do so, it must urgently be done. All of the estate's assets have been liquidated. The rails were pulled up, the assets liquidated, and the line abandoned. If you sell, you liquidate an asset that might otherwise be a worry. The finance giants have liquidated their assets, and their grand banking halls have found a new lease of life as dens of iniquity of a different sort. Synonyms convert to cash, convert, cash, cash in, sell off, sell up, realize 1.3 Pay off (a debt). 清偿（债务） Example sentencesExamples He says that the first option he proposed was to sell its equipment and liquidate its debts. One wonders how the inoperative council is supposed to generate the much needed finances to liquidate the debts. If the Scottish parliament was jealous of its honour, the least it could have done was direct that the first year's pension money should be paid to Westminster to liquidate this debt. Sales of vast tracts of land belonging to religious houses and the former rulers also provided the capital needed to liquidate the debts of the ancien régime and establish state and public finances on a new and more solid basis. He proposed that the first step towards liquidating the short-term debt should be through a limited issue of paper money by a National Bank. During this period the German currency collapsed into hyperinflation, bankrupting entire sections of the middle class, but benefiting sections of industry which were able to liquidate their debts. Synonyms pay off, pay, pay in full, settle, clear, discharge, square, make good, honour, defray, satisfy, account for 2informal Eliminate, typically by violent means; kill. 除掉，杀戮 Example sentencesExamples The offender got what he richly deserved and it is a shame more people like that are not liquidated by security guards, police and defence. From the moment you and your people are liquidated like so many dogs you have to retain your importance… What if the man, who had liquidated her and been subsequently nabbed, were to be hanged for the justice he had meted out? All ‘former Trotskyists’ were to be tracked down and liquidated. After Mary's murderer brutally kills his cousin/accomplice and nearly liquidates McGee, Travis fakes his death at sea and covertly returns to Florida. We should guard against emotionally driven demands to kill many bystanders in an effort to liquidate our enemy. I discuss the possibility of having him liquidated with elements of the intelligence community who are on-message, but we reluctantly agree he would be more trouble dead than alive. He destroyed what people fought for in 1917 and he physically liquidated many of the people who fought in 1917 because they carried the memory of the revolution. He was principally concerned with liquidating all the Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto. In the 1930s and 1940s they saw hundreds of thousands of their fellow members liquidated, without a murmur of opposition. He said at the end if I asked another question he'd have me liquidated. In course of time even some European states adopted terrorism to liquidate, wipe out and transplant unwanted peoples. Hardly noticed, they are liquidated in extermination camps. Based on the slightest suspicion, I would be totally isolated or liquidated. In principle, I'm sorry we didn't liquidate him. If a Global Messiah emerges to popularise the practice of voluntary simplicity and the rejection of Hollywood, will he be liquidated by a robo-assassin? They point to the fact that, on top of the estimated six million Jews liquidated in the Final Solution, millions of gypsies, homosexuals, political radicals and Soviet prisoners-of-war also met their deaths in the ovens. On August 2, 1944, the SS liquidated the Gypsy camp and killed most of the remaining inmates in the gas chambers. Sending out a kill squad to liquidate an innocent researcher would just prompt a lot of questions I didn't have any answers to. And it was at this very moment I resolved to kill her - liquidate her once and for all so that she could never become a challenge to me. Synonyms massacre, murder, butcher, kill, kill off, annihilate, exterminate, execute, eliminate, destroy, decimate, wipe out, mow down, cut down, cut to pieces, put to the sword, put to death, send to the gas chambers kill, murder, cause the death of, end the life of, take the life of, do away with, make away with, assassinate, do to death, eliminate, terminate, dispatch, finish off, put to death, execute Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘set out (accounts) clearly’): from medieval Latin liquidat- ‘made clear’, from the verb liquidare, from Latin liquidus (see liquid). liquidate (sense 1) was influenced by Italian liquidare and French liquider, liquidate (sense 2) by Russian likvidirovatʹ.
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