Liquidation

Noun

 * 1) The process of converting into cash (or into an asset with high liquidity).
 * 2) The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.
 * The store is having a liquidation sale, everything must go as they go out of business.

Related terms

 * liquid
 * liquidate
 * liquidator
 * liquidity
 * liquidizer
 * liquor

Thesaurus
abolishment, abolition, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, agiotage, amortization, amortizement, annihilation, annulment, arbitrage, assassination, binder, bloody murder, bumping-off, buying in, cash, cash payment, cashiering, choking, choking off, clearance, debt service, deconsecration, defrayal, defrayment, defrocking, deportation, deposal, deposit, deposition, deprivation, deracination, detachment, dethronement, disbarment, disbarring, disbursal, discard, discharge, discrownment, disenthronement, disjunction, dismissal, displacement, disposal, disposition, doling out, down payment, earnest, earnest money, ejection, elimination, equity capital, eradication, excommunication, exile, expatriation, expulsion, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, firing, flier, flutter, forced resignation, foul play, hire purchase, hire purchase plan, homicide, impeachment, installment, installment plan, interest payment, kicking upstairs, manslaughter, monthly payments, murder, negation, never-never, nullification, ostracism, ousting, outlawing, outlawry, overthrow, overthrowal, paying, paying off, paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind, payoff, pensioning off, plunge, prepayment, profit taking, purge, purging, quarterly payments, quittance, regular payments, remittance, removal, retirement, riddance, rooting out, round trade, satisfaction, scalping, settlement, severance, silencing, sinking-fund payment, snuffing out, speculation, spot cash, spot sale, stifling, stockjobbery, stockjobbing, strangulation, suffocation, superannuation, suppression, suspension, thuggee, thuggery, thuggism, turn, unchurching, unfrocking, unseating, uprooting, venture, venture capital, voiding, weekly payments, withdrawal

Translations

 * Japanese: 流動化 (ryūdōka)

Noun

 * 1) sale (sale of goods at reduced prices)