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self-liquiˈdation
[self- 1 a.]
1. Comm. (orig. U.S.). The action or process of repaying a self-liquidating loan. Cf. self-liquidating ppl. a.
1932Burroughs Clearing House Mar. 23/1 The idea of self-liquidation, of having a definite source of repayment in sight, of inquiring into the purpose of the loan with a view to finding out how far the money is to be sunk in fixed assets, all these relate to the liquidity of loans. 1949H. V. Prochnow Term Loans & Theories of Bank Liquidity i. 5 The belief that commercial banks..should extend credit only for short periods and for purposes which result in the self-liquidation of the credit. 1951Banco Nazionale del Lavoro Q. Rev. July–Sept. 135/2 In the last few decades the theory of ‘self-liquidation’ has been gradually set aside and replaced by the ‘shiftability theory’.
2. The destruction or elimination of oneself by oneself. Also fig. Cf. liquidation 3 b.
1949Koestler Promise & Fulfilment ii. iv. 253 This difference..was demonstrated by Irgun's voluntary self-liquidation..as opposed to the Stern Group's persistence in terrorism. 1964I. L. Horowitz New Sociology 17 The recent work in some quarters..seems to point precisely in the direction of the self-liquidation of sociology. 1977Canadian Jrnl. Sociology II. 106 The inevitable self-liquidation of science is another way of speaking of science's tie to life. |