Liquidate vs Decommission - What's the difference?
liquidate | decommission |
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.
To take out of service or to render unusable.
To remove or revoke a commission.
To remove or revoke a formal designation.
As verbs the difference between liquidate and decommission
is that liquidate is to settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount while decommission is to take out of service or to render unusable.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.
Synonyms
* (to settle the affairs) conclude * (to kill)Anagrams
* ----decommission
English
Verb
(en verb)- They decommissioned the ship after the accident.
- The Army decommissioned the Sherman tank by filling the turret with cement.
- After his arrest, the officer was decommissioned from the police force.
- The state highway was decommissioned and reverted to local control.