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2009.07.31
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LIQUID 流動性の、現金化しやすい
- A liquid asset is cash or an asset that can be easily changed into cash.
To liquidate an asset is to sell it for cash.
To liquidate a business is to sell its assets in order to pay off debts.
The noun form is liquidation. - A liquid asset は、現金や現金化しやすい資産、つまり、流動資産のことです。
liquidate an asset と言うと、資産を売って現金にする、という意味です。
liquidate a business と言うと、借金を返済するために、会社の資産を売却する、という意味です。
名詞形は liquidation で、換金、弁済、清算、という意味です。
- I'd like to invest $85,000 in a mutual fund, but keep the rest more liquid as an emergency fund.
- There weren't sufficient liquid assets to pay off the taxes owed on their deceased father's estate, so they had to liquidate some of his real estate holdings.
- A long-term capital gain is profit earned after liquidating an asset that was held for more than a year.
- During the latest stock market crash, many panicked investors chose to liquidate their shares and hold their capital as cash.
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