self-liquidating
Americanadjective
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capable of being sold and converted into cash within a short period of time or before the date on which the supplier must be paid.
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(of a property, loan, project, investment, etc.) used or operating in such a way as to repay the money needed to acquire it.
He rented half of the house to someone else so that his home loan became self-liquidating.
adjective
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(of a loan, bill of exchange, etc) used to finance transactions whose proceeds are expected to accrue before the date of redemption or repayment
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(of a business transaction, project, investment, etc) yielding proceeds sufficient to cover the initial outlay or to finance any recurrent outlays
Etymology
Origin of self-liquidating
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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The “testamentary trust will be self-liquidating after a decade or so and operate with a lean staff,” Buffett said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
At the same time, the great experiment in self-liquidating colonialism was planting seeds that would sprout into the problems Marcos faces today.
From Time Magazine Archive
About the best anyone would predict for the model community, or corporation, or self-liquidating cooperative, or whatever it was, was a short and futile life.
From Time Magazine Archive
Preference should be given to those projects which will be self-liquidating.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is this that lends them their self-liquidating quality; for they are usually liquidated by the acceptor out of the proceeds of the resale of the goods during the currency of the bill.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur
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