liquidateverb
uk/ˈlɪk.wə.deɪt/us/ˈlɪk.wə.deɪt/liquidate verb (CLOSE)
[ I or T ] to cause a business to close, so that its assets can be sold to pay its debts
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Success & failure in business
- administration
- axe
- bankrupt
- bankruptcy
- branch
- branch out
- collapse
- establish
- fold
- foreclose
- growing pains
- joint venture
- liquidator
- locate
- moribund
- official receiver
- organic growth
- receivership
- shut (sth) down
- spin
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Borrowing & lending
liquidate verb (KILL)
[ T ] to kill someone
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Killing
- assisted suicide
- commit suicide idiom
- decimation
- do for sb/sth
- drown
- early
- electrocute
- end it (all) idiom
- fatal
- finish
- hara-kiri
- immolate
- killer
- life-threatening
- malignant
- mortally
- shooting
- slaughterhouse
- suicide
- terminal
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liquidation
noun [ C or U ] uk/ˌlɪk.wəˈdeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌlɪk.wəˈdeɪ.ʃən/
After three years of heavy losses the company went into liquidation with debts totalling £100 million.