liquidations

Noun

liquidation (countable and uncountable, plural liquidations)

1. The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.
2. The action or process of winding up the affairs of a company, etc.; 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.
3. The clearing off or settling of a debt.
   • Their compenſation becomes part of the national debt, for the liquidation of which there is the one exhautſtleſs fund.1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page...
4. (euphemistic) The action or process of abolishing or eliminating; the murder of dehumanized victims.
   • Near-synonyms: devitalization, fatality; see also Thesaurus:death, Thesaurus:killing

   Synonyms:

   devitalization, fatality, death, end, tomb, celestial transfer, decease, decomposition, defunction, dematerialization

5. The partial clearing of the board, by an exchange of pieces, to obtain an obviously winning position.
   • The liquidation with 31 Qd2 Rd2 put [Viktor] Korchnoi into a lost ending, but nothing else would have rescued him either.1991 July 30, Robert Byrne, “Chess”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015
6. (rare) The action or fact of partaking of an alcoholic drink.
   • As regards liquidation, champagne, which, except at the tables of the wealthy, was never seen, for it was a guinea a bottle, is now almost as vin ordinaire.1889, F[rederick] E[dward] Gretton, “Time’s Changes—Changes in School-Training”, in Memory’s Harkback through Half-a-Century, 1808 to 1858, London: Richard Bentley and Son […], →OCLC, page 311