🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

crise de liquidité

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kriz də li.ki.di.te

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Liquidity crisis/lɪˈkwɪd.ə.ti ˈkraɪ.sɪs/
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"La banque centrale a pris des mesures pour éviter une crise de liquidité."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A sudden, acute shortage of cash or liquid assets across a financial market, banking system, or enterprise, making it difficult or impossible to meet short-term obligations.

    "The central bank intervened aggressively to prevent a severe liquidity crisis from spreading through the interbank lending market."
  2. 2

    An economic condition in which assets cannot be easily converted into cash without suffering a significant loss in value.

    "Real estate investors faced a liquidity crisis when property sales completely froze during the downturn."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'liquidity' (derived from the Latin 'liquidus', meaning fluid or wet, entering English in the late 16th century, later adopting financial connotations of cash availability in the 19th century) and 'crisis' (from the Greek 'krisis', meaning turning point or decision, via Latin). As a compound economic term, it gained widespread currency in the 20th and 21st centuries during major financial panics and recessions to describe sudden shortages of cash.

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🇫🇷French → English

crise de liquidité

Transliteration: kriz də li.ki.di.te

"La banque centrale a pris des mesures pour éviter une crise de liquidité."

🇩🇪German → English

Liquiditätskrise

Transliteration: likviˈdɪtɛːtsˌkʁiːzə

"Das Unternehmen geriet durch ausbleibende Zahlungen in eine schwere Liquiditätskrise."

🇮🇹Italian → English

crisi di liquidità

Transliteration: kri.zi di li.kwiˈdi.tav

"Il mercato azionario ha reagito male alla notizia di una possibile crisi di liquidità."

🇪🇸Spanish → English

crisis de liquidez

Transliteration: kri.sis de liˈki.ðes

"El gobierno implementó fondos de rescate para evitar una crisis de liquidez."

🇵🇹Portuguese → English

crise de liquidez

Transliteration: kri.zi dʒi li.kiˈdɛj.zis

"A instituição financeira enfrentou uma grave crise de liquidez no último trimestre."

🇮🇳Hindi → English

तरलता संकट

Transliteration: taraltā saṅkaṭ

"बैंकों में नकदी की कमी के कारण एक बड़ा तरलता संकट उत्पन्न हो गया।"

🇨🇳Chinese → English

流动性危机

Transliteration: liúdòngxìng wēijī

"央行注入资金以缓解市场的流动性危机。"

🇰🇷Korean → English

유동성 위기

Transliteration: yudongseong wigi

"기업들은 금리 인상으로 인해 심각한 유동성 위기를 겪고 있다."

🇯🇵Japanese → English

流動性危機

Transliteration: ryūdōsei kiki

"市場全体が深刻な流動性危機に見舞われている。"

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