liquidatorn.
/ˈlɪkwᵻdeɪtə/, U.S. /ˈlɪkwəˌdeɪdər/ a. A person appointed to conduct the winding-up of a company.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > one who has charge of or manages money > one who manages bankrupt's estate
assignees in bankruptcy1687
syndic1728
receiver1768
liquidator1858
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > keeper of accounts > other accountants
Accountant General1621
actuary1772
chartered accountant1855
liquidator1858
costs clerk1860
cost clerk1861
cost-keeper1865
credit man1878
cost accountant1892
preparer1960
creative accountant1973
1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xxii. 170 All executors and administrators, liquidators under the Joint Stock Companies Act.
1870 Daily News 23 Apr. The official liquidator..had done all that he could to get in and administer the assets of the company.
1965 A. Seldon & F. G. Pennance Everyman's Dict. Econ. 260 The Official Receiver is appointed provisional liquidator, and his appointment may be confirmed or he may be replaced at the first meeting of the creditors.
1971 Daily Tel. 9 Feb. 15/5 The creditors' call for a provisional liquidator for Mineral Securities..followed on intense activity..with leading Australian international financiers.
1971 Times 10 Dec. 8/6 The appointment of a provisional liquidator and special manager was essential in order to collect those balances and get the other assets in.
b. liquidators of vessels (U.S.): a class of officers of the New York custom-house.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > customs house or tollbooth > custom-house officer
customary1494
jerquer1706
douanier1739
king's man1814
liquidators of vessels1884
1884 R. Wheatley in Harper's Mag. June 58/1.
c. A person who implements a policy of liquidation. Cf. liquidate v. 7.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > utter destruction or annihilation > one who annihilates
extinguisher1562
expungerc1611
exterminator1611
annihilator1666
decreator1678
blotter out1827
exterminatrix1880
exterminatress1891
liquidator1949
zapper1969
1949 I. Deutscher Stalin 94 Labelled by Lenin ‘the liquidators’, the grave-diggers of the party.
1963 Listener 24 Jan. 171/1 The psychotic actions of totalitarian liquidators.
1975 J. Gardner Killer for Song ii. 16 Special Security had employed him as an agent—a liquidating agent, designed, quite literally, to cut down security risks. They had even called him the Liquidator.
Derivatives
ˈliquidatorship n. the office of liquidator.
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1869 Daily News 5 Nov. That..the official liquidator should be allowed to retire from the provisional liquidatorship.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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