liquidate
Nghĩa (English)
- To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
- To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
- To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem.
- To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain.
- To do away with.
- to kill, destroy, eliminate (mostly for political or ideological reasons)
- (obsolete) To make clear and intelligible.
- (obsolete) To make liquid.
Synonyms
quiten
rid of
set aright
shoot dead
cause to fail
convert into cash
clear up off
Tính thường xuyên
Phát âm là (IPA)
/ˈlɪkwədeɪt/
Từ nguyên (English)
From Medieval Latin liquidatus (“liquid, clear”), past participle of liquidare. The sense “to kill, do away with” is a semantic loan from Russian ликвиди́ровать (likvidírovatʹ), ultimately from Latin liquidus.
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