liquidator

Other forms of liquidator

plural

liquidators·

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 liquidator

What does liquidator mean?

liquidator means "a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in liquidator?

liquidator has 4 syllables: liq-ui-da-tor. The stress falls on "liq". In IPA it is /ˈlɪkwɪˌdeɪtɚ/.

What is another word for liquidator?

Close synonyms include murderer, manslayer, receiver. 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 liquidator a common word?

liquidator is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.