liquidate

Nghĩa (English)

  1. To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
  2. To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
  3. To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem.
  4. To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain.
  5. To do away with.
  6. to kill, destroy, eliminate (mostly for political or ideological reasons)
  7. (obsolete) To make clear and intelligible.
  8. (obsolete) To make liquid.

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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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