| liquidation | | |
| n. (act) | 1. liquidation, settlement | termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities. |
| ~ ending, termination, conclusion | the act of ending something.; "the termination of the agreement" |
| ~ viaticus settlement, viatical settlement | sale of an insurance policy by a terminally ill policy holder. |
| n. (act) | 2. extermination, liquidation | the act of exterminating. |
| ~ destruction, devastation | the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists. |
| n. (act) | 3. elimination, liquidation | the murder of a competitor. |
| ~ murder, slaying, execution | unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being. |
| payoff | | |
| n. (possession) | 1. final payment, payoff | the final payment of a debt. |
| ~ payment | a sum of money paid or a claim discharged. |
| n. (possession) | 2. bribe, payoff | payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment. |
| ~ payment | a sum of money paid or a claim discharged. |
| ~ hush money | a bribe paid to someone to insure that something is kept secret. |
| ~ kickback | a commercial bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into the transaction. |
| ~ payola | a bribe given to a disc jockey to induce him to promote a particular record. |
| ~ soap | money offered as a bribe. |
| n. (possession) | 3. issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings, yield | the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property.; "the average return was about 5%" |
| ~ income | the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time. |
| ~ economic rent, rent | the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions. |
| ~ payback | financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment). |
| n. (event) | 4. payoff, reward, wages | a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing.; "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward" |
| ~ aftermath, consequence | the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual. |
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