Antonyms for liquidation
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : lik-wi-dey-shuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌlɪk wɪˈdeɪ ʃən |
Definition of liquidation
Origin :- 1570s, noun of action from Late Latin liquidare (see liquidate); originally as a legal term in reference to assets; of inconvenient groups of persons, 1925 in communist writings.
- noun elimination
- noun annihilation
- First the capital evaporates, and then the company goes into liquidation.
- Extract from : « Victory » by Joseph Conrad
- Two other companies went into liquidation in carrying out the work.
- Extract from : « Reminiscences of Queensland » by William Henry Corfield
- This may also be true of a period of liquidation not preceded by crisis.
- Extract from : « The Settlement of Wage Disputes » by Herbert Feis
- Mysterious addition, the liquidation of which must be left to the Hebrew scholar.
- Extract from : « Not Paul, But Jesus » by Jeremy Bentham
- The House of Commons determined to apply this to the liquidation of a debt.
- Extract from : « Constitutional History of England, volume 3 of 3 » by Henry Hallam
- I have spoken to Baring about the Commission of Liquidation.
- Extract from : « Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 » by Thomas Wodehouse Legh Newton
- Liquidation was her course—the only honest—the only justifiable course.
- Extract from : « Thirty Years' View (Vol. II of 2) » by Thomas Hart Benton
- She still had her work at the bank; the progress of liquidation was slow.
- Extract from : « When Egypt Went Broke » by Holman Day
- The loss referred to was rendered easy to him in its liquidation.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi » by Joseph Grimaldi
- Noah,—he floated his stock when all the world was in liquidation.
- Extract from : « The Handbook of Conundrums » by Edith B. Ordway
Synonyms for liquidation
- abolishing
- abolition
- assassinating
- bane
- carnage
- clearance
- crashing
- crushing
- cut
- destruction
- discard
- disintegrating
- displacement
- disrupting
- dissolving
- downfall
- dropping
- ejection
- elimination
- end
- eradication
- exclusion
- expulsion
- extermination
- extinction
- extinguishing
- extinguishment
- extirpation
- havoc
- invalidating
- invalidation
- loss
- massacre
- murder
- obliteration
- omission
- overthrow
- purge
- ravaging
- rejection
- removal
- riddance
- ruin
- ruination
- sacking
- shattering
- slaughter
- slaying
- subjugation
- subversion
- subverting
- taking away
- undoing
- weeding out
- withdrawal
- wreckage
- wrecking
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