liquidator

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liquidator

A court-appointed liquidator reviews the company's financial documents.

Definition
  1. Noun:
    • A person appointed to wind up the affairs of a company or organization: A liquidator is an official, often appointed by a court or creditors, responsible for selling a company's assets to pay its debts and then dissolving the company.
    • A person who kills another: In a broader, more general sense, a liquidator can refer to someone who eliminates or kills someone, often used in contexts of organized crime or espionage.
Usage Examples
  • Noun (Financial/Legal):
    • The court appointed a liquidator to manage the bankrupt company's assets.
    • The liquidator sold all the factory equipment to repay the creditors.
  • Noun (General):
    • In the spy novel, the agent was a ruthless liquidator for the secret police.
    • The gang used a professional liquidator to silence witnesses.
Advanced Usage
  • "To act as a liquidator": To perform the duties of winding up a company.
    • The accountant was hired to act as the liquidator for the partnership.
  • In a metaphorical sense: Can describe someone or something that ends or eliminates something abstract.
    • The new policy was a liquidator of outdated traditions.
Variants and Related Words
  • Liquidate (verb): To wind up a business by selling assets; to eliminate or kill.
    • The board decided to liquidate the failing subsidiary.
  • Liquidation (noun): The process of winding up a company; the act of eliminating.
    • The company went into liquidation last month.
Synonyms
  • Receiver (noun): A person appointed to administer the property of a bankrupt.
  • Administrator (noun): A person legally appointed to manage and settle the estate of a deceased person or a bankrupt company.
  • Executioner (noun): A person who carries out a sentence of death.
  • Assassin (noun): A murderer, especially one who kills a politically important person.
Related Phrases
  • To go into liquidation: (For a company) to enter the process of being wound up and having its assets sold.
    • The store will go into liquidation next week.
  • Liquidation sale: A sale of assets, typically at reduced prices, during the winding-up of a business.
    • Everything must go at the final liquidation sale.
liquidator

A court-appointed liquidator reviews the company's financial documents.

Noun
  1. (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties
  2. a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)

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