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Helixa Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

'illiquid' or 'non-liquid' company

Please tell me if the term 'illiquid company' is better than 'non-liquid'.

Non-liquid companies are unable to pay their taxes.
Illiquid companies are unable to pay their taxes.
  

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Both are not used very often, but if you need to choose, I would opt for 'non-liquid'. It is more clear. When you read it, it is easier to deduce that you are referring to a company whereby liquidity is lacking.

  • Both are not used very often, but if you need to choose, I would opt for 'non-liquid'.
  • It is more clear.
  • When you read it, it is easier to deduce that you are referring to a company whereby liquidity is lacking.
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Both are not used very often, but if you need to choose, I would opt for 'non-liquid'. It is more clear. When you read it, it is easier to deduce that you are referring to a company whereby liquidity is lacking.
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In which country is used non-liquid as term referring to company?
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Dear friends,

both terms are recurrent in a variety of states, since company law is a rapidly advancing sphere, particularly so in developing countries. It is interesting to know that Oxford Finance and Banking Dictionary lists only illiquid, and suggests the following collocations:

- illiquid assets: those that are not easily convertible into cash;
- illiquid market:

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