liquidator

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: liquidator

1	n	(law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties
2	n	a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: liquidator

Examples:: Jack the Ripper
an unidentified English murderer in the 19th century; John Wilkes Booth
United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865); Lee Harvey Oswald
United States assassin of President John F. Kennedy (1939-1963)

Types:: show 15 types...; hide 15 types...; assassin, assassinator, bravo
a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed; butcher
a brutal indiscriminate murderer; cutthroat
someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat; fratricide
a person who murders their brother or sister; gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman
a professional killer who uses a gun; hatchet man, iceman
a professional killer; infanticide
a person who murders an infant; mass murderer
a person who is responsible for the deaths of many victims in a single incident; murderess
a woman murderer; parricide
someone who kills his or her parent; ripper
a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife; serial killer, serial murderer
someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval; matricide
a person who murders their mother; patricide
a person who murders their father; spree killer
a serial killer whose murders occur within a brief period of time

Type of:: criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw
someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime; killer, slayer
someone who causes the death of a person or animal

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