liquidation.
The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.
Meaning & usage
The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.
The action or process of winding up the affairs of a company, etc.; the selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.
The store is having a liquidation sale: everything must go as they go out of business.
The clearing off or settling of a debt.
The action or process of abolishing or eliminating; the murder of dehumanized victims.
When Stalinists spoke of the liquidation of the kulaks as a class, they intentionally created ambiguity regarding reeducation versus murder.
The partial clearing of the board, by an exchange of pieces, to obtain an obviously winning position.
The action or fact of partaking of an alcoholic drink.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *wlikʷéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *(w)likʷēō Latin liqueō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Classical Latin liquidus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Classical Latin -ō Late Latin liquidō ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Classical Latin -ātus English liquidate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion ▲ Late Latin liquidōbor. Italian liquidarebor. Middle French liquider ▲ Old French -ation Middle French -ation Middle French liquidationbor. English liquidation * From liquidate + -ion (suffix forming nouns denoting an action or process). Liquidate is a learned borrowing from Late Latin liquidātus, the perfect passive participle of liquidō (“to turn into a liquid, melt; to make clear”), from Classical Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid; clear, transparent”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). * Alternatively, a borrowing from Middle French liquidation, from liquider (“to liquidate”) + -ation (suffix forming nouns denoting an action or process). Liquider is probably a borrowing from Italian liquidare, itself also from the aforementioned Late Latin liquidō by borrowing.
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