illiquid
Hard to sell
Illiquid describes assets that cannot easily be converted to cash without significant loss of value or delay.
Real estate and private equity are illiquid compared to publicly traded stocks.
A company with illiquid assets may struggle to meet short-term obligations: The fund collapsed when investors tried to withdraw from illiquid holdings.
The opposite of liquid.
Cannot be sold
- unsellableImpossible to vend
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
- locked-inFixed and unchangeable
- restrictedLimited in scope
unlisted · thin · opaque · nonconvertible · untransferable · indivisible · nonnegotiable · stagnant
Net money movement
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- bankruptcyLegal status when insolvent
- defaultPreset standard option
- overleveragedExcessively burdened by debt
indebtedness · foreclosure · receivership · distressed · restructuring · creditors · debts · liabilities
Property and land
- collectiblesItems people amass
- artHuman creative expression
- antiquesValuable old items
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
timberland · farmland · wine · stamps · coins · memorabilia · startups · crowdfunding
unmarketable
Cannot be sold
- unsellableImpossible to vend
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
- locked-inFixed and unchangeable
restricted · unlisted · thin · opaque · nonconvertible · untransferable · indivisible · nonnegotiable · stagnant · private
cashflow
Net money movement
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- bankruptcyLegal status when insolvent
- defaultPreset standard option
overleveraged · indebtedness · foreclosure · receivership · distressed · restructuring · creditors · debts · liabilities · shortfall
real-estate
Property and land
- collectiblesItems people amass
- artHuman creative expression
- antiquesValuable old items
infrastructure · timberland · farmland · wine · stamps · coins · memorabilia · startups · crowdfunding · annuities
- financial termswealth, asset, currency, balance sheet, audit
- business adjectivescommercial, corporate, economic, financial, fiscal
- market statesopen, closed, halted, suspended, active
- financesmoney, affluence, cash, bankrupt, income
- price wordscheap, expensive, costly, affordable, pricey
- unsellablesunmarketable, deadstock, unsold goods, defective goods, damaged goods
illiquidliquid
Free-flowing substance
cash · liquid assets · spendable · cashable · negotiable
illiquidliquid
Free-flowing substance
marketable · tradable · exchange-traded · blue-chip · listed