winding-up
Bringing to close
Winding-up is the process of closing down a business or settling an estate—paying debts, liquidating assets, and distributing what remains.
A company in winding-up is being dissolved: The court ordered the winding-up of the insolvent firm.
The term appears mainly in British legal and financial contexts.
In casual use, winding up (without the hyphen) simply means finishing or concluding: the winding up of negotiations.
Selling assets for cash
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- creditorsThose owed payment
- assetsOwned items of value
bankruptcy · administration · petition · proceedings · resolution · voluntary · compulsory · tribunal
End or deduction
- finishingBringing to completion
- finalizingMaking something permanent
- wrapping-upCompleting final stages
- closingFinal stage of something
ending · termination · completion · culmination · resolution · tapering · countdown · endgame
liquidation
Selling assets for cash
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- creditorsThose owed payment
assets · bankruptcy · administration · petition · proceedings · resolution · voluntary · compulsory · tribunal · directors
conclusion
End or deduction
- finishingBringing to completion
- finalizingMaking something permanent
- wrapping-upCompleting final stages
closing · ending · termination · completion · culmination · resolution · tapering · countdown · endgame · homestretch
clockwork
Spring-driven gear system
mainspring · key · torque · tightening · gear · movement · watch · toy · crank · turns
teasing
Playful, mild ridicule
- baitingDeliberately trying to provoke
- goadingInciting through persistent pressure
- provokingCausing a reaction
irritating · annoying · ribbing · joshing · needling · mocking · taunting · riling · agitating · pranking
- insolvencyinsolvency, bankruptcy court, liquidation, bankruptcy, creditors
- liquidationliquidation, liquidator, company closure, final accounting
winding-upstartup
New business enterprise
incorporation · launch · founding · establishment · formation
winding-upstarting
Initiating an action
beginning · initiating · commencing · opening · kicking off
winding-upexpansion
Increase in scope
growth · scaling up · building up · ramping up · development
wind, winding, winded, unwinding, rewind, wind-up, unwound, rewinds, rewinding