liquidation

The act or process of liquidating or of being liquidated.; The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.countableuncountable

• The store is having a liquidation sale: everything must go as they go out of business.

The act or process of liquidating or of being liquidated.; The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.countableuncountable

• Their compenſation becomes part of the national debt, for the liquidation of which there is the one exhautſtleſs fund.

The act or process of liquidating or of being liquidated.; The act or process of abolishing or eliminating; the murder of dehumanized victims.countableeuphemisticuncountable

• Near-synonyms: devitalization, fatality; see also Thesaurus:death, Thesaurus:killing
• When Stalinists spoke of the liquidation of the kulaks as a class, they intentionally created ambiguity regarding reeducation versus murder.

The partial clearing of the board, by an exchange of pieces, to obtain an obviously winning position.countableuncountable

• The liquidation with 31 Qd2 Rd2 put [Viktor] Korchnoi into a lost ending, but nothing else would have rescued him either.
• 20 a4 e4 21 Rfd1 Rd8 22 Bf1! Forcing an extremely favourable liquidation.

The action or fact of partaking of an alcoholic drink.countablerareuncountable

• 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.
• His desire for liquidation was expressed so heartily that I went with him to a café down the street where we had some vile vermouth and bitters.