English Dictionary

liquidate

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈlɪkwədeɪt/

動詞

他動詞 廃用

(transitive) To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount. / (transitive) To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.

日本語の意味

（債務を）清算する、決済する / （企業の資産を利用して）会社の清算を行う

The company decided to liquidate the outstanding loan to clear its balance.

その会社は残高を解消するために未払いのローンを返済することに決めた。

意味（1）

(transitive) To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.

Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins.

意味（2）

(transitive) To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.

意味（3）

(transitive) To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem.

Her only relative was a niece in Boston, who arranged for a local lawyer to liquidate Mrs. Garner’s property.

意味（4）

(law, transitive) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain.

A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law.

意味（5）

(transitive) To do away with.

How far progress has been made in liquidating the locomotive stock of the old companies may be judged from the shrinkage in their numbers, by some 50 per cent. at the end of 1931, to about 35 per cent. in 1938.

意味（6）

(transitive) To kill.

意味（7）

(obsolete, transitive) To make clear and intelligible.

Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system.

意味（8）

(obsolete, transitive) To make liquid.

liquidates （ present singular third-person ）

liquidating （ participle present ）

liquidated （ participle past ）

liquidated （ past ）