liquidity
noun/lɪˈkwɪdəti/
/lɪˈkwɪdəti/
[uncountable] (finance)- the state of owning things of value that can easily be exchanged for cash
- Financial institutions must maintain sufficient liquidity to meet the demands of depositors.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryLiquidity is used before these nouns:- crisis
- trap
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French liquidité or medieval Latin liquiditas, from Latin liquidus, from liquere ‘be liquid’.Want to learn more?
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