Consolidate vs Liquidate - What's the difference?
consolidate | liquidate |
(ambitransitive) To combine into a single unit; to group together or join.
To make stronger or more solid.
(obsolete) Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.
* Elyot
To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
* W. Coxe
To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
To convert (assets) into cash.
To do away with.
To kill.
(legal) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain.
* 15 Ga. Rep. 821
* Chesterfield
(obsolete) To make clear and intelligible.
* A. Hamilton
(obsolete) To make liquid.
As verbs the difference between consolidate and liquidate
is that consolidate is (ambitransitive) to combine into a single unit; to group together or join while liquidate is to settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.As an adjective consolidate
is (obsolete) formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.consolidate
English
Verb
(consolidat)- He consolidated his luggage into a single large bag.
Coordinate terms
* ( combine into a single unit) (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- A gentleman [should learn to ride] while he is tender and the brawns and sinews of his thighs not fully consolidate .
liquidate
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins.
- A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law.
- If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated , I believe you would be brought in considerably debtor.
- Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system.