Reimburse vs Liquidate - What's the difference?
reimburse | liquidate |
To compensate with payment; especially, to repay money spent on one's behalf.
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 liquidate and reimburse
is that liquidate is to settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount while reimburse is to compensate with payment; especially, to repay money spent on one's behalf.reimburse
English
Verb
(reimburs)- The company will reimburse your expenses for the business trip.
Derived terms
* reimbursable * reimbursement * reimburserHypernyms
* compensate, payliquidate
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.