Definitions for liquidate

liquidate liq·ui·date

Spelling: [lik-wi-deyt]
IPA: /ˈlɪk wɪˌdeɪt/

Liquidate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 259 anagrams from letters in liquidate (adeiilqtu).

Definitions for liquidate

verb (used with object)

  1. to settle or pay (a debt):
  2. to reduce (accounts) to order; determine the amount of (indebtedness or damages).
  3. to convert (inventory, securities, or other assets) into cash.
  4. to get rid of, especially by killing:
  5. to break up or do away with:

verb (used without object)

  1. to liquidate debts or accounts; go into liquidation.

Origin of liquidate

1565-75; 1920-25 for def 4; Late Latin liquidātus, past participle of liquidāre to melt, make clear. See liquid, -at

Examples for liquidate

Stockman both predicts imminent raging inflation and urges investors to liquidate their investors and hide in cash.

Which the same being the case, I invite all to come forward and liquidate.

Where did you obtain the money that you applied to liquidate, or partially to liquidate, your debts?

As workers went on strike and the company threatened to liquidate, Hostess was essentially crippled.

When a business runs into this sort of problem, we know what to do: liquidate and sell off the non-performing assets.

His throat was dry and he proposed to liquidate his unusual exertion.

“Economic diversity,” by contrast, brings economic difference into higher education in order to liquidate the difference.

Now, my love, duty requires that I should at once begin to liquidate.

It is not enough to liquidate the most brutal forms of power and tell people they are now free.

There was only one thing to do—root them out, liquidate them.

Word Value for liquidate
Scrable

19

Words with friends

21

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