unliquidating
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + liquidating.
Adjective
[edit]unliquidating (comparative more unliquidating, superlative most unliquidating)
- Not liquidating.
- 1824 March 26, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos XV. and XVI., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and H[enry] L[eigh] Hunt, […], →OCLC, canto XVI, (please specify the stanza number):
- The Sinking-Fund's unfathomable sea, / That most unliquidating liquid, leaves / The debt unsunk, yet sinks all it receives.
- 1939, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Committee Study Resolution - Alaskan Fisheries Hearings, page 759:
- In terms of international commerce an unliquidating favorable trade balance would sound "funny." It is not altogether not so in the minds of Alaskan folk.