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Word Meanings - LIQUIDATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of ; or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of ; to make the amount of ; clear and certain. A debt or demand is liquidated whenever

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To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of ; or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of ; to make the amount of ; clear and certain. A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law. 15 Ga. Rep. 821. If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated, I believe you would be brought in considerable debtor. Chesterfield. 2. In an extended sense: To ascertain the amount, or the several amounts, of , and apply assets toward the discharge of (an indebtedness). Abbott. 3. To discharge; to pay off, as an indebtedness. Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins. W. Coxe. 4. To make clear and intelligible. Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system. A. Hamilton. 5. To make liquid. Liquidated damages , damages the amount of which is fixed or ascertained. Abbott.

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  • DISBURSE
    To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury. The duty of collecting and disbursing his revenues. Macaulay. Disbursing officer, an officer in any department of the public service who is charged with the duty of paying out public
  • DISBURSEMENT
    1. The act of disbursing or paying out. The disbursement of the public moneys. U. S. Statutes. 2. That which is disbursed or paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.
  • SETTLEMENT
    A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
  • EXPEND
    1. To be laid out, used, or consumed. 2. To pay out or disburse money. They go elsewhere to enjoy and to expend. Macaulay
  • SETTLE
    1. A seat of any kind. "Upon the settle of his majesty" Hampole. 2. A bench; especially, a bench with a high back. 3. A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part. And from the bottom upon the ground, even
  • DEFRAYAL
    The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs.
  • DEFRAY
    LL. fredum, fridum, expense, fine by which an offender obtained peace from his sovereign, or more likely, atoned for an offense against the 1. To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.
  • DISCHARGER
    One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.
  • SETTLER
    1. One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc. 2. Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England. 3. That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which
  • DISBURSER
    One who disburses money.
  • DEFRAYMENT
    Payment of charges.
  • SATISFYINGLY
    So as to satisfy; satisfactorily.
  • REMUNERATE
    To pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, expense, or other sacrifice; to recompense; to requite; as, to remunerate men for labor. Syn. -- To reward; recompense; compensate; satisfy; requite; repay; pay; reimburse. (more info) remunerari;
  • DISCHARGE
    1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge
  • SATISFY
    comp.) to make; cf. F. satisfaire, L. satisfacere. See Sad, a., and 1. In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full, or so far as
  • REQUITE
    To repay; in a good sense, to recompense; to return (an equivalent) in good; to reward; in a bad sense, to retaliate; to return for evil; to punish. He can requite thee; for he knows the charma That call fame on such gentle acts as these. Milton.
  • SETTLEDNESS
    The quality or state of being settled; confirmed state. Bp. Hall.
  • LIQUIDATE
    To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of ; or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of ; to make the amount of ; clear and certain. A debt or demand is liquidated whenever
  • EXPENDITOR
    A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers. Mozley & W.
  • COMPENSATE
    prop., to weigh several things with one another, to balance with one 1. To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.
  • UNLIQUIDATED
    Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled. Unliquidated damages , penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill.
  • REDISBURSE
    To disburse anew; to give, or pay, back. Spenser.
  • DISSETTLEMENT
    The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled. Marvell.
  • OUTSETTLER
    One who settles at a distance, or away, from others.
  • DISSATISFY
    To render unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by the want of something requisite; as, to be dissatisfied with one's fortune. The dissatisfied factions of the autocracy. Bancroft.
  • UNSETTLEMENT
    The act of unsettling, or state of being unsettled; disturbance. J. H. Newman.
  • UNSETTLE
    To move or loosen from a settled position or state; to unfix; to displace; to disorder; to confuse.
  • BACKSETTLER
    One living in the back or outlying districts of a community. The English backsettlers of Leinster and Munster. Macaulay.

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