Oh my word Liquidate, Liquidize

He is planning to liquidate his liquor business. Liquidate, not liquidize. He is almost bankrupt. He wants to liquidate his assets: to turn them into cash and pay the debts with that money. Can he enter into liquidizing business after that? Maybe. He can think of liquidizing fruits or wood and market them locally, and globally.

Liquidate and liquidize could be confused: they are not interchangeable words and infact have different meanings. Liquidate is a term common in business, or in financial context, and in times of dire financial straits. Liquidate means to convert something into cash or money; sell off assets or belongings; settle and pay the debt by a firm or company by stopping its operations, assess its debt and use its assets to pay off the debt.

Liquidate also indicates to annul, cancel, terminate, or dissolve. Liquidator is a person responsible for liquidating a business. There are instances when firms are forced to liquidate its assets mostly by bankers or investors. Informally, liquidate means to kill someone or make an enemy ineffective by attacking its strength; murder; destroy, eliminate something or someway, annihilate. During the Cold War, the USA and USSR were aiming to liquidate each other indirectly until it came to an end.

Liquidate is a verb; other verb forms are liquidates, liquidated, and liquidating and liquidation (noun). Liquidize means to turn something into liquid form. Other derivatives of liquidize are liquidizes, liquidizing, liquidized. Shyam makes yummy fruit juices. He liquidizes one or two fruits first, sugar and adds milk to make it tasty. Liquidizer (American English, liquidizer is the spelling in British English) is an electric device for liquidizing food, or fruits, or vegetables.

Kovuuri G Reddy