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• v  get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
  The mafia liquidated the informer
• v  eliminate by paying off (debts)
• v  convert into cash
  I had to liquidate my holdings to pay off my ex-husband
• v  settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off
  liquidate a company

• Hoover passes a stern judgment on Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, whose only formula, says Hoover, was: "Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers .
• Or maybe your marriage breaks up, and you have to liquidate your assets at today's prices.
• Most hedge funds do not regularly liquidate their entire portfolio, so they report unrealized gains to their investors and to the public.

• neutralize
• neutralise
• waste
• knock off
• do in
• pay off

News & Articles

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• Failed Motorcar Parts Units to Liquidate
  Two companies split from Motorcar Parts of America Inc. have filed for bankruptcy, with plans to liquidate.
  June 11, 2013 - Los Angeles Business Journal

Quotes

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• Radovan Karadzic in Newsday
  This court is representing itself falsely as a court of the international community, whereas it is in fact a court of NATO, whose aim is to liquidate me,said Karadzic, who faces charges relating to the 1995 massacre of 8,000 male Muslims in...
• Carlyle in Reuters
  The company is in ongoing negotiations with the remaining lenders, who hold approximately $16 billion in securities, and, if a mutually beneficial agreement is not reached, some of these lenders may also liquidate their securities,Carlyle...
• Alan Greenspan in Chicago Tribune
  Asked what would happen if the government cannot find a way to reach a deal on Lehman without public money, Greenspan said, "They have to make a very key decision as to whether or not they allow it to liquidate or they support it. And those are very...