liquidity
NOUN · English
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The corpus records 4 senses of liquidity. Each sense below has its own Add to list, so you choose the one you mean.
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Experimental coverage — measured below Partial on the number of recorded words, definitions, translations, word forms and pronunciation. Treat entries as evidence to check; meanings may be incomplete.
English is Experimental in Words. Support is measured, not declared: a language reaches Partial only when every measure meets its threshold, and a measure that has not been taken does not count. The development corpus holds 60 source-backed words in English. What is shown may be incomplete, and pronunciation audio, generated forms and generated examples are not offered.
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Definition: The state or property of being liquid. From a source of medium confidence.
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Definition: The degree of which something is in high supply and demand, making it easily convertible to cash. From a source of medium confidence.
countable · uncountable
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Definition: An asset's property of being able to be sold without affecting its value; the degree to which it can be easily converted into cash. From a source of medium confidence.
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- Some stocks are traded so rarely that they lack liquidity. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: Availability of cash over short term: ability to service short-term debt. From a source of medium confidence.
countable · uncountable
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- This is often phrased in terms of whether they are facing liquidity or solvency problems; but I think it’s better phrased in terms of the possibility of self-fulfilling crises, a la Obstfeld. 2011 July 8, Paul Krugman, “A Self-Fulfilling Euro Crisis? (Wonkish)”, in The New York Times:
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Etymology: From liquid + -ity, from Latin liquiditas. In their financial and economic senses, this and various associated terms all involve portraying assets figuratively as if they were liquids and solids, dissolving the solids with solvents, freezing and thawing, and so on. From a source of medium confidence.
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