[f. LIQUIDATE v. + -OR. Cf. F. liquidateur.] A person appointed to conduct the winding-up of a company.
1858. Ld. St. Leonards, Handy-bk. Prop. Law, xxii. 170. All executors and administrators, liquidators under the Joint Stock Companies Act.
1870. Daily News, 23 April, 2/2. The official liquidator … had done all that he could to get in and administer the assets of the company.
b. Liquidators of vessels (U.S.): a class of officers of the New York custom-house.
1884. R. Wheatley, in Harper’s Mag., June, 58/1.
Hence Liquidatorship, the office of liquidator.
1869. Daily News, 5 Nov., 3/3. That Mr. Price, the official liquidator, should be allowed to retire from the provisional liquidatorship.
