liquidation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
noun the act of exterminating
noun the murder of a competitor

From liquidate + -ion.

"The liquidation of my debts," repeated Mr Hazlit, firmly. — Under the Waves: Diving in Deep Waters, R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Persevere; follow the usual modes of liquidation, and something will come of it!" — Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
"This the usual type of weapon used in your New Texas political liquidations?" — Lone Star Planet, H. Beam Piper

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