noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a company goes into liquidation (= is closed and sold in order to pay its debts )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
voluntary
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One member asked for details of how my father had gone into voluntary liquidation .
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They go into voluntary or compulsory liquidation .
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It went into voluntary liquidation on 7 May.
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Creditors may vote to accept or not to accept either the voluntary liquidation or liquidator.
■ VERB
go
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In mid-1985 Berg went into liquidation with a deficit of some £15m.
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The receiving company went into liquidation the following month.
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Kent Opera goes into liquidation after Arts Council grant withdrawn.
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Its wholesale arm has now gone into compulsory liquidation .
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Land Travel has gone into liquidation .
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Tancare has since gone into liquidation .
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It is possible that before going into liquidation the buyer had paid part of the price to the seller.
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Secondly, that liability to pay can only arise if the company goes into liquidation .
put
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The company has been put into liquidation , and some of its assets have been sold off to a rival firm.
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The firm has been put into liquidation by it's owners, who say they can't afford to pay redundancy money.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A director is not an employee of the company and is not entitled to preferential payment when the company goes into liquidation .
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And so he overlooks liquidation of twenty million people in Soviet Union.
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Boro have been involved in photo-finishes since the 1986 liquidation crisis, while Lawrence performed a permanent highwire act at Charlton Athletic.
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But his group also faces the threat of liquidation proceedings over a A$150million disputed indemnity agreement.
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It may, for example, involve liquidation fraud, where a company voluntarily goes into liquidation to avoid its responsibilities.
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Neither wants to accept responsibility for the repairs needed since the previous contractor went into liquidation .
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The liquidator therefore claimed for recovery of the deficit on liquidation .
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The retailer said inventory liquidation sales will begin next week at the 86 stores, at sites across the country.