Liquidation vs. Liquidity

Liquidation vs. Liquidity — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Liquidation and Liquidity

Liquidationnoun

The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.

Liquiditynoun

(finance) The degree of which something is in high supply and demand, making it easily convertible to cash

My Picasso painting is not very liquid, it would take me months to sell it. Gold on the other hand is convertible to cash at any moment, making it a very liquid commodity.

Liquidationnoun

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.

Liquiditynoun

(uncountable) The state or property of being liquid.

Liquidationnoun

A euphemism for murder invented by Nazi Germany to dehumanize the victims of that regime.

Liquiditynoun

An asset's property of being able to be sold without affecting its value; the degree to which it can be easily converted into cash.

Some stocks are traded so rarely that they lack liquidity.
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Liquidationnoun

termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities

Liquiditynoun

(finance) Availability of cash over short term: ability to service short-term debt.

Liquidationnoun

the act of exterminating

Liquiditynoun

the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility

Liquidationnoun

the murder of a competitor

Liquiditynoun

the property of flowing easily

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Liquiditynoun

being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability