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Liquidate vs Eliminate - What's the difference?

liquidate | eliminate |

As verbs the difference between liquidate and eliminate

is that liquidate is to settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount while eliminate is
to completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists
.

liquidate

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
  • * W. Coxe
  • Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins.
  • 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
  • A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law.
  • * Chesterfield
  • If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated , I believe you would be brought in considerably debtor.
  • (obsolete) To make clear and intelligible.
  • * A. Hamilton
  • Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system.
  • (obsolete) To make liquid.
  • Synonyms

    * (to settle the affairs) conclude * (to kill)

    Anagrams

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    eliminate

    English

    Verb

    (eliminat)
  • To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
  • (slang) To kill (a person or animal).
  • (physiology) To excrete (waste products).
  • To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
  • Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses.
    John was eliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight.
  • (accounting) To record amounts in a to remove the effects of inter-company transactions. FindMyBestCPA.com - Consolidated Statements (Interco eliminations)
  • Synonyms

    * See also * abrogate * abolish

    Synonyms

    * give the chop to * give the boot to * give the sack to * give the walking papers to * vote off

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