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self-ˈliquidating, ppl. a. Comm. (orig. U.S.). [self- 1 f.] Of, pertaining to, or designating credit, or a loan, that repays itself with the money accruing within a certain period after its investment. Also of a premium similarly offered.
1915U.S. Fed. Reserve Board 1st Ann. Rep. 1914 9 It is recommended that the Federal Reserve Banks confine themselves strictly to dealing in short-term, self-liquidating paper growing out of commercial, industrial, and agricultural operations. 1928Burroughs Clearing House May 32/3 If the purpose is a constructive one, stimulating production and of a self-liquidating character..then the loan should be made. 1939Construction & Financing of Self-Liquidating Projects (U.S. Congr. House Comm. on Banking & Currency) 2 In view of this splendid repayment record there can be little doubt that the tenancy program has been established on a sound, self-liquidating basis. 1942W. B. Taylor Financial Policies of Bus. Enterprise iv. xiii. 288 Short-term loans, commonly made for less than a year, are usually self-liquidating and hence not adapted to the raising of fixed capital. 1967Economist 10 June p. xxxi/2 The traditional role of providing short term, self-liquidating trade finance to a nation of shopkeepers is too narrow. 1971R. L. Willsmer Directing Marketing Effort ii. xviii. 292 A self-liquidating premium looks good because it theoretically costs nothing. Also self-ˈliquidator, a self-liquidating premium.
1944Premium Practice Mar. 8/2 Mr. Cahill mentioned the following: (a) self-liquidators. 1948Ibid. Oct. 30/1 The juvenile field was once the objective of the self-liquidator. Now it is the adult thing. 1962G. Meredith Effective Merchandising with Premiums ii. iv. 37 It would be impossible to identify one promotion as the beginning of modern self-liquidator practice. 1970R. Willsmer in G. Wills New Ideas in Retail Managem. xii. 170 Self-liquidating premium offers continue to lead the field... Only eight store-promoted self-liquidators were recorded. |