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liquidate

verb
🔊/ˈlɪkwɪdeɪt/
🔊/ˈlɪkwɪdeɪt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they liquidate
🔊/ˈlɪkwɪdeɪt/
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he / she / it liquidates
🔊/ˈlɪkwɪdeɪts/
🔊/ˈlɪkwɪdeɪts/
past simple liquidated
🔊/ˈlɪkwɪdeɪtɪd/
🔊/ˈlɪkwɪdeɪtɪd/
past participle liquidated
🔊/ˈlɪkwɪdeɪtɪd/
🔊/ˈlɪkwɪdeɪtɪd/
-ing form liquidating
🔊/ˈlɪkwɪdeɪtɪŋ/
🔊/ˈlɪkwɪdeɪtɪŋ/
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  1. [intransitive, transitive] liquidate (something) to close a business and sell everything it owns in order to pay debts清算，清盘（停业后将资产出售，偿还债务）Topics Businessc2
  2. [transitive] liquidate something (finance金融) to sell something in order to get money变卖；变现
    • to liquidate assets变卖资产
  3. [transitive] liquidate something (finance金融) to pay a debt偿还，清偿（债务）
    • They are having to sell off their equipment in order to liquidate their debts.他们不得不出售设备以清算债务。
  4. [transitive] liquidate somebody/something (informal) to destroy or remove somebody/something that causes problems; to kill somebody 消灭；摧毁；清除synonym annihilate
    • The government tried to liquidate the rebel movement and failed.政府试图肃清反叛运动，结果失败了。🔊🔊
    5. Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘set out (accounts) clearly’): from medieval Latin liquidat- ‘made clear’, from the verb liquidare, from Latin ‘liquidus’, from liquere ‘be liquid’. Senses (1) to (3) were influenced by Italian liquidare and French liquider, sense (4) by Russian likvidirovat.