How to Use liquidate in a Sentence

liquidate

verb

• The owners were ordered to liquidate.
• The owners were ordered to liquidate the company and pay their creditors.
• The film is about a professional killer who's hired to liquidate a powerful businessman.
• The company is liquidating its assets.
• Arte Moreno is indicted by the feds, is forced to liquidate the Angels to stay out of prison, and as a result Shohei goes to the Dodgers.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2023
• In a good portion of the cases, their hope is to one day liquidate the business and live off that pool of capital for the rest of their lives.
  — Bill Keen, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• When prices went down instead, their brokers called in their loans, and the traders were forced to liquidate assets to come up with the cash to repay those loans.
  — The Motley Fool, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2022
• In the case of Twitter, the acquirer, Musk, has to liquidate part of his huge Tesla holdings to pay for the deal (the rest will come from a consortium of banks).
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2022
• The company was forced to liquidate and sell its assets.
  — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2022
• To pass the climate stress tests, banks would have to liquidate fossil-fuel assets.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022
• As the older members of the group liquidate their collections, Lopez has taken much of it to display in her basement.
  — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2022
• The shareholders have enormous incentive to approve the deal because if the merger fails, the blank-check firm would be forced to liquidate.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
• In the absence of a last-minute buyer, the company will be fully liquidated.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 24 Apr. 2023
• The firm says crude stocks tend to decline at the end of the year as oil companies liquidate year-end inventories for tax purposes.
  — WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
• Only then does the government actually own the assets, and have the power to liquidate them.
  — New York Times, 8 May 2022
• Other routes include liquidating the shoes through discount stores or selling them off by the pound.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2023
• Three Arrows, a crypto hedge fund that had invested in Luna, had to liquidate.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
• When employed by a loop firm some years ago, my employer was the recipient of four boxes of cigars from a customer to liquidate his debt.
  — Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 17 Mar. 2022
• Santa is forced to liquidate most North Pole assets to pay for updated sleigh model.
  — Eli Grober, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2022
• To try to liquidate an asset or recover an overdue debt.
  — CBS News, 2 Nov. 2022
• Six were forced to liquidate last year, another one earlier this year.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 1 June 2023
• In court, McGuinn framed the sale of homes as part of a larger effort to liquidate his assets, adding that some of the proceeds — some $2.2 million — were wired this year to a law firm in the Bahamas to purchase a residence there.
  — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• The chain is expected to liquidate its remaining stores unless a buyer emerges within the next week, The Wall Street Journal reports.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 6 July 2023
• In this case, Taxpayer A still has the ability to liquidate the asset, which would create a taxable event that could be used to book a capital loss.
  — Shehan Chandrasekera, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
• Pay the families a minimum of $8.5 million for the next 10 years and all his assets and put an end to this case, or liquidate his assets and continue fighting in court for decades to come.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
• With no firm offer on the table, the company is moving forward with plans to liquidate in early August.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 24 July 2023
• Last month, Christmas Tree Shops gave up trying to save itself while in bankruptcy and began liquidating all of its stores.
  — Steven Church, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2023
• In fact, inventories are in the process of being liquidated (a big negative for GDP).
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• The committee could also request a judge convert the Chapter 11 case to Chapter 7, which could see Giuliani forced to liquidate his assets.
  — New York Daily News, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2024
• As a result, if the bubble bursts, retail investors who have used leverage may be forced to liquidate other positions, widening the sell-off.
  — Jacob Wolinsky, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024