liquidate
Of an amount of money: ascertained, determined, fixedOf an amount of money: ascertained, determined, fixed.
» Shareholders voted to liquidate the company's assets.
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1 senses(archaic, not comparable, obsolete, rare)Of an amount of money: ascertained, determined, fixed.
Examples
7 sentencesShareholders voted to liquidate the company's assets.
Enemies of peace must be liquidated.
deDie Feinde des Friedens müssen vernichtet werden. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
It was then I became occupied in liquidating members of the opposite sex.
They liquidated everything.
The store has been liquidated. It's closed for good.
Origin
Learned borrowing from Late Latin liquidātus (“liquid; clear”, adjective) + English -ate (Learned borrowing from Late Latin liquidātus (“liquid; clear”, adjective) + English -ate (suffix forming verbs, and forming adjectives with the sense ‘characterized by [the specified things]’). Liquidātus is the perfect passive participle of liquidō (“to turn into a liquid, melt; to make clear”), from Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid; clear, transparent”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs); while liquidus is from liqueō (“to be fluid or liquid; to be clear or transparent”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (“to make wet; moist”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives). By surface analysis, liquid (adjective) + -ate.
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