liquidation
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If a business cannot be saved, the company's belongings may be sold so that some of the borrowed money can be repaid, which is known as liquidation.
From BBC
Tricolor filed for a bankruptcy liquidation in September after one of its securitization partners, Fifth Third Bank, revealed that it would take a $200 million loss tied to Tricolor.
The developer had been the outlier among its privately owned peers that have undergone restructuring or liquidation since the yearslong downturn in China’s property sector began.
Farzin Azarm, managing director of equity trading at Mizuho Securities USA, said the most important market event this week is what he describes as “one of the biggest liquidation events of the year.”
From MarketWatch
But while U.S. stock markets have remained close to record highs, bitcoin lost steam in October after a cascade of market liquidations stung traders and exchanges.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
