Redeem vs Liquidate - What's the difference?
redeem | liquidate |
To recover ownership of something by buying it back.
To liberate by payment of a ransom.
To set free by force.
To save, rescue
To clear, release from debt or blame
To expiate, atone (for ...)
(finance) To convert (some bond or security) into cash
To save from a state of sin (and from its consequences).
To repair, restore
To reform, change (for the better)
To restore the reputation or honour of oneself or something.
(archaic) To reclaim
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.
In transitive terms the difference between redeem and liquidate
is that redeem is to restore the reputation or honour of oneself or something while liquidate is to kill.redeem
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(en verb)Synonyms
* (recover ownership) buy back, repurchaseAntonyms
* abandonDerived terms
* redeem oneself * redeemable * redeemably * redeemer * unredeemable * unredeemably * unredeemedliquidate
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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.
