Divestment vs. Liquidation

Divestmentnoun

(finance) The sale or other disposal of some kind of asset.

Divestmentnoun

The act of divesting.

Divestment

In finance and economics, divestment or divestiture is the reduction of some kind of asset for financial, ethical, or political objectives or sale of an existing business by a firm. A divestment is the opposite of an investment.

Liquidationnoun

The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.

Liquidationnoun

The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.

Liquidationnoun

A euphemism for murder invented by Nazi Germany to dehumanize the victims of that regime.

Liquidationnoun

The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated.

Liquidationnoun

termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities

Liquidationnoun

the act of exterminating

Liquidationnoun

the murder of a competitor

Liquidationnoun

the process of liquidating a business

Liquidationnoun

the conversion of assets into cash (i.e. by selling them).

Liquidationnoun

the clearing of a debt.

Liquidationnoun

the killing of someone, typically by violent means.

Liquidation

Liquidation is the process in accounting by which a company is brought to an end in Canada, United Kingdom, United States, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Italy, and many other countries. The assets and property of the company are redistributed.