Usually means: Convert assets into cash quickly.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. liquidate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. liquidate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. liquidate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. liquidate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. liquidate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Liquidate, liquidate: Wordnik
  7. liquidate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. liquidate: Wiktionary
  9. liquidate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. liquidate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. liquidate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. liquidate: Dictionary.com
  13. liquidate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. liquidate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Liquidate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Liquidate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. liquidate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. liquidate: Rhymezone
  19. liquidate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. liquidate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. liquidate: Free Dictionary
  22. liquidate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. liquidate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. liquidate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. liquidate: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. liquidate: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. liquidate: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Liquidate: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  9. Liquidate: Investopedia
  10. Liquidate: Securities Terminology
  11. liquidate: Legal dictionary
  12. liquidate: Financial dictionary
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. liquidate: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. liquidate: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Liquidate: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

(Note: See liquidated as well.)

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verb:  (transitive)
verb:  (archaic, rare) Synonym of liquefy (“to make (something) into a liquid”); to liquidize.
verb:  (figurative)
verb:  To make (a sound) less harsh.
verb:  To use up (money or other assets) wastefully; to dissipate, to squander, to waste.
verb:  (informal) To kill (someone), usually violently, and especially for some ideological or political aim; to assassinate, to murder; also, to abolish or eliminate (something); to do away with, to put an end to.
verb:  (business, commercial law, finance)
verb:  To convert (assets) into cash; to encash, to realize, to redeem.
verb:  To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount; to pay off.
verb:  To settle the financial affairs of (a corporation, partnership, or other business) with the aim of ceasing operations, by determining liabilities, using assets to pay debts, and apportioning the remaining assets if any; to wind up.
verb:  (obsolete) To make (something) clear and intelligible.
verb:  To resolve or settle (differences, disputes, etc.).
verb:  (chiefly law) To ascertain (an amount of money), especially by agreement or through litigation; also, to set out (financial accounts) properly.
verb:  (intransitive, business, commercial law, finance) Of a corporation, partnership, or other business: to settle financial affairs with the aim of ceasing operations; to go into liquidation, to wind up.
adjective:  (law, archaic or obsolete, rare) Of an amount of money: ascertained, determined, fixed.

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