liquidate
verb- [intransitive, transitive] liquidate (something)
to close a business and sell everything it owns in order to pay debts Topics Businessc2清算,清盘(停业后将资产出售,偿还债务) - [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
- [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. 为了清偿债务,他们不得不变卖设备。
- [transitive] liquidate somebody/something (informal)
to destroy or remove somebody/something that causes problems; to kill somebody synonym annihilate消灭;摧毁;清除
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.