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solvent
/ ˈsɒlvənt /
adjective
- capable of meeting financial obligations
- (of a substance, esp a liquid) capable of dissolving another substance
solvent
/ sŏl′vənt /
- A substance that can dissolve another substance, or in which another substance is dissolved, forming a solution. Water is the most common solvent.
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Derived Forms
- ˈsolvently, adverb
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Other Words From
- solvent·less adjective
- solvent·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of solvent1
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Example Sentences
A marriage ends and one party pays the less financially solvent party some sort of means of support.
Republic wanted to terminate its obligations and put workers in a 401(k) (or at least a more solvent Teamster pension plan).
Rob Hach says "Without the tax credit, we're going to have to cut half of our employees to stay solvent."
But what Shteyngart describes is the sort of dysfunction that occasionally plagues even the best and most solvent carrier.
The existence of social security substantially undercuts the demographic increase needed to make the security system solvent.
At the same time, the change is also in the direction of an expansion of the solvent in the solution.
From Walden's work it appears that the dielectric constant finally determines the quantitative ionizing effect of a solvent.
It is thus evident, that the solvent action of ammonium hydroxide is not due to its basic functions.
The shop smelled of paint, solvent and plastic, like most any other.
"Miss Dormer's herself an English picture," their visitor pronounced in the tone of a man whose urbanity was a general solvent.
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