liquidation

English

Etymology

From liquidate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌlɪkwəˈdeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

liquidation (countable and uncountable, plural liquidations)

1. The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.
2. 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.

3. (euphemistic) Murder of dehumanized victims.

   Near-synonyms: devitalization, fatality; see also Thesaurus:death, Thesaurus:killing

Related terms

• liquid
• liquidate
• liquidator
• liquidity
• liquidizer
• liquor

Translations

process of converting into cash

• Finnish: likvidointi (fi)
• Greek: εκκαθάριση (el) f (ekkathárisi)
• Indonesian: pencairan (id)
• Japanese: 流動化 (ryūdōka)
• Polish: spieniężenie n, likwidacja (pl) f, upłynnienie n, sprzedanie (pl) n, zbycie n
• Turkish: tasfiye (tr)

selling a business’s assets

• Afrikaans: likwidasie
• Arabic: تَصْفِية f (taṣfiya)
• Bulgarian: ликвидация (bg) f (likvidacija)
• Czech: likvidace (cs) f
• Dutch: vereffening (nl) f, liquidatie (nl) f
• French: liquidation (fr) f
• German: Abwicklung (de) f, Liquidation (de) f
• Indonesian: likuidasi (id)
• Italian: liquidazione (it) f
• Norwegian: likvidasjon
• Polish: likwidacja (pl) f
• Russian: ликвида́ция (ru) f (likvidácija)
• Spanish: liquidación (es) f
• Swedish: likvidation (sv) c
• Turkish: tasfiye (tr)
• Ukrainian: ліквіда́ція f (likvidácija)

murder of dehumanized victims

• Danish: likvidering (da) c
• Polish: likwidacja (pl) f
• Ukrainian: ліквіда́ція f (likvidácija)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.ki.da.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

liquidation f (plural liquidations)

1. sale, liquidation (sale of goods at reduced prices)
2. liquidation

Further reading

• “liquidation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.