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wind up

phrase

C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

To bring a company's existence to an end by realising its assets and settling its liabilities.

The creditors petitioned the court to wind up the insolvent company.

Similar: liquidate

Topic: Corporate law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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