See illiquid in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"expansion": "illiquid (comparative more illiquid, superlative most illiquid)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "illiquidity"
},
{
"word": "frozen"
},
{
"word": "insolvent"
},
{
"word": "solvent"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "liquid"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with collocations",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"en:Finance"
],
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"tags": [
"collocation"
],
"text": "illiquid assets",
"type": "example"
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14,
22
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],
"text": "Investment in illiquid assets may prove to be a mistake if the market turns down.",
"type": "example"
},
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114,
122
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],
"ref": "2023 January 17, Matthew Goldstein, David Yaffe-Bellany, “In Hunt for FTX Assets, Lawyers Locate Billions in Cash and Crypto”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
"text": "Aside from the $5.5 billion, FTX also holds sizable positions in 20 digital assets that the lawyers described as “illiquid tokens” that are difficult to convert into cash.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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84,
92
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"ref": "2023 September 30, Victoria Bekiempis, quoting Caroline Ellison, “‘Dark’ donations, free love and the fall: the Sam Bankman-Fried trial is here”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
"text": "“While I was co-CEO and then CEO, I understood that Alameda had made numerous large illiquid venture investments and had lent money to Mr Bankman-Fried and other FTX executives,” Ellison said.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Lacking liquidity.",
"Not readily converted into cash."
],
"links": [
[
"finance",
"finance#Noun"
],
[
"liquidity",
"liquidity"
],
[
"asset",
"asset"
],
[
"cash",
"cash"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(finance) Lacking liquidity.",
"(of assets) Not readily converted into cash."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of assets"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"finance"
]
},
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "liquid"
}
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"en:Finance"
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"tags": [
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],
"text": "illiquid millionaires",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Lacking liquidity.",
"Having substantial assets but with most of them being of types not readily converted into cash (thus, not having much ready money)."
],
"links": [
[
"finance",
"finance#Noun"
],
[
"liquidity",
"liquidity"
],
[
"person",
"person"
],
[
"cash",
"cash"
],
[
"ready money",
"ready money"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(finance) Lacking liquidity.",
"(of persons) Having substantial assets but with most of them being of types not readily converted into cash (thus, not having much ready money)."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of persons"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"finance"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɪˈlɪkwɪd/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪkwɪd"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "nelikviden",
"sense": "lacking liquidity",
"word": "неликвиден"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "lacking liquidity",
"word": "nelikvidní"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "lacking liquidity",
"word": "epälikvidi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "lacking liquidity",
"word": "illiquide"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "lacking liquidity",
"word": "illiquid"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "lacking liquidity",
"word": "niepłynny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "lacking liquidity",
"word": "ilíquido"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "nelikvídnyj",
"sense": "lacking liquidity",
"word": "неликви́дный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "lacking liquidity",
"word": "ilíquido"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "lacking liquidity",
"word": "illikvid"
}
],
"word": "illiquid"
}
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