See liquidate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1851, Hargroves v. Cooke, 15th Georgia Reports 321:",
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"ref": "1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 161:",
"text": "How far progress has been made in liquidating the locomotive stock of the old companies may be judged from the shrinkage in their numbers, by some 50 per cent. at the end of 1931, to about 35 per cent. in 1938.",
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