self-liquidating

American  

[self-lik-wi-dey-ting, self-] / ˌsɛlfˈlɪk wɪˌdeɪ tɪŋ, ˈsɛlf- /

adjective

1. 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.

2. (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.

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self-liquidating British  

adjective

1. (of a loan, bill of exchange, etc) used to finance transactions whose proceeds are expected to accrue before the date of redemption or repayment

2. (of a business transaction, project, investment, etc) yielding proceeds sufficient to cover the initial outlay or to finance any recurrent outlays

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Etymology

Origin of self-liquidating

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

self-liquidating

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

"A safe and socially justifiable experiment" would be the allotment of $100,000,000 for independent, self-liquidating rural electric projects.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last year Reconstruction Finance Corp. was given $1,500,000,000 to lend to States & cities for self-liquidating projects.

From Time Magazine Archive

That job is to get the banks back into the banking business, out of security selling, out of investing in unsalable bonds and frozen real estate mortgages, back into short-term, self-liquidating commercial loans.

From Time Magazine Archive

The period should be sufficient to allow of a resale of the goods on which the bill is based, thus making the bill in a sense self-liquidating.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur