self-liquidating

[ self-lik-wi-dey-ting, self- ]

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.

self-liquidating

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-liquidating¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

The “testamentary trust will be self-liquidating after a decade or so and operate with a lean staff,” Buffett said.

From Seattle Times

Putin’s regime is self-liquidating, if the United States and its allies can help Ukraine stay in the fight.

From Washington Post

What Apple is accused of is a contradiction in terms—self-liquidating to $1 trillion.

From Wall Street Journal

“We expect to be at benchmark weight or overweight in corporate credit and will favor credit exposures that, while they may weaken during periods of market volatility, tend to have low default risk – and will also demonstrate a preference for short-dated/ self-liquidating positions in investment grade and high yield credit,” Fels and Balls said.

From Reuters

We could be wrong but the Trump effort is probably self-liquidating.

From Wall Street Journal