liquidate the past -the liquidation of the past-under the pretext of liquidating past history.
This applies more strongly where the only object in making the investment is to prevent the company from going into insolvent liquidation. ***
the company entered liquidation
go into liquidation
To liquidate a company is to close it down and sell all its assets, usually because it is in debt. (BUSINESS)
A unanimous vote was taken to liquidate the company.
• liq|ui|da|tion liquidations N-VAR
The company went into liquidation...
The number of company liquidations rose 11 per cent.
2 VERB V n
If a company liquidates its assets, its property such as buildings or machinery is sold in order to get money. (BUSINESS)
The company closed down operations and began liquidating its assets in January.
3 VERB V n
If someone in a position of power liquidates people who are causing problems, they get rid of them, usually by killing them.
They have not hesitated in the past to liquidate their rivals.
= eliminate
liquidation
noun
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The act or process of eliminating:
clearance, elimination, eradication, purge, removal, riddance.
annihilation, eradication, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, obliteration.
liquidation sentence examples
- Members of an insolvent LLP may also have to repay a liquidator some or all of their drawings for the two years preceding liquidation.
- Millers survival likely as new group takeover Rotherham United look to have beaten the fight to avoid liquidation.
- This lead many to believe the company had entered liquidation.
- He was forced to return to England to face the liquidation of his Daily Paper debts.
- A company can cease to be a CIC only by dissolution ( which may follow liquidation ) or by conversion to a charity.
- This applies more strongly where the only object in making the investment is to prevent the company from going into insolvent liquidation. ***
- In due course the company went into compulsory liquidation.
- The company was placed in members ' voluntary liquidation on 8 November 1996.
- We also deal with solvent liquidations, generally undertaken for tax or wealth protection purposes.
- See Chapter 2 for further details regarding provisional liquidations.
- The question arises how an agreement between shareholders, outside the confines of a formal liquidation, can divest a company of its property?
- We can also start bankruptcy or liquidation proceedings against you or your company.
- The sanction of the liquidation committee would be needed to enable the liquidator to agree a compromise regarding the amount owed by a contributory.
- The Leyland DAF Case Payment of Liquidation expenses out of Assets comprised in Floating Assets.
- Discover Government auctions, police auctions, liquidation sales, bankrupt stock sales.
- Notes: a There is no corresponding procedure in company liquidation.
- Please note the Trustees reluctantly taken the decision to place RSI Assoication into creditor's voluntary liquidation.
- The company was placed in members ' voluntary liquidation on 8 November 1996.
- The provisions concerning the liquidation of German assets were never carried out.
- Since the liquidation of the company Darren Young has repaid the money stolen to the liquidator.
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