liquidation

Other forms of liquidation

plural

liquidations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about liquidation

What does liquidation mean?

liquidation means "termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in liquidation?

liquidation has 4 syllables: liq-ui-da-tion. The stress falls on "da". In IPA it is /ˌlɪkwɪˈdeɪʃən/.

What is another word for liquidation?

Close synonyms include settlement, extermination, elimination. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is liquidation a common word?

liquidation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with liquidation?

18 words rhyme with liquidation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.