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  • The new policy was a liquidator of outdated traditions.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.

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)