In finance, a company's liquidity is the amount of cash or liquid assets it has easily available.
[business]
The company maintains a high degree of liquidity.
...serious liquidity problems.
liquidity in British English
(lɪˈkwɪdɪtɪ)
noun
1.
the possession of sufficient liquid assets to discharge current liabilities
2.
the state or quality of being liquid
liquidity in American English
(lɪˈkwɪdɪti)
noun
1.
the quality or state of being liquid
2. Finance
a.
the ability of a business to meet obligations without disposing of its fixed assets
b.
the ability of a market to absorb buying and selling without producing undue price fluctuations
liquidity in Finance
(lɪkwɪdɪti)
noun
(Finance: General)
A company's liquidity is its ability to turn its assets into cash.
The company maintains a high degree of liquidity.
One way to ensure liquidity is to maintain large cash balances or arrange necessary borrowing facilities butneither approach results in optimal profitability.
A company's liquidity is its ability to turn its assets into cash.
liquidity event
liquidity in Accounting
(lɪkwɪdɪti)
noun
(Accounting: Basic)
A company's liquidity is its ability to turn its assets into cash.
One way to ensure liquidity is to maintain large cash balances or arrange necessary borrowing facilities butneither approach results in optimal profitability.
The company had to ensure cash flows and liquidity, and also had to generate sufficient profits at the end of the day to ensure dividendsfor shareholders.
A company's liquidity is its ability to turn its assets into cash.
Examples of 'liquidity' in a sentence
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This should provide sufficient liquidity for investors to buy in or exit.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Making extra liquidity available to the banks and reducing still further the cost of borrowing is exactly what a central bank should be doing right now.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The new liquidity will be available as long as it is needed.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
There is an urgent need for government to provide liquidity to small firms.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
There is sufficient liquidity for investors to get out when they need to.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The current liquidity crisis has seen perfectly viable small companies dragged down.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The problem is that liquidity is a matter of degree.
Charles A. D'Ambrosio & Stewart D. Hodges & Richard Brealey & Stewart Myers Principles of Corporate Finance (1991)
Not the best policy when facing a liquidity crisis.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The banks argue that their real problem is liquidity.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
But there is also the possibility that the recent liquidity crisis becomes a broader squeeze on credit.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
All building societies continue to suffer liquidity problems.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
These measures restored some sense to the balance sheet and provided sufficient liquidity for the company to carry on.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Japan's big banks reached that point about five years after the liquidity crisis.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Waitrose said that it was prepared to make early payments to suppliers with short-term liquidity problems.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It may be that we are going through a crisis of liquidity, not solvency.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Standard said that it had sufficient liquidity in the fund to meet demand and that there were no queues of people demanding their cash.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Because of the lack of liquidity and higher default risk, the bank earns its highest return on loans.
Mishkin, Frederic S. Financial Markets, Institutions and Money (1995)
Regulators already set minimum liquidity standards, typically requiring banks to hold sufficient liquidity to meet potential liabilities for a period ahead.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Cash provides liquidity, but it doesn't pay interest.
Charles A. D'Ambrosio & Stewart D. Hodges & Richard Brealey & Stewart Myers Principles of Corporate Finance (1991)
I also have high liquidity.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Experienced managers know that a strong cash culture not only provides liquidity, it also delivers long-term improvements in financial management.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
In September it was still intending to close its special liquidity credit line to banks this month, thereby fanning the panic.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
A spokesman said: 'We need to keep our liquidity high.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It wants the terms of the special liquidity scheme, where banks swap mortgage debt for gilts, extended to pump more cash into the system.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Over the next 20 years, the balance sheets of the largest dealers ballooned and their willingness to provide liquidity across a range of products grew exponentially.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
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British English: liquidity NOUN
In finance, a company's liquidity is the amount of cash or liquid assets it has easily available.