liquidator
/'likwideitə/
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Definition
- 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- The new policy was a liquidator of outdated traditions.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.
Noun
- (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties
- a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)