illiquidity.

The difficulty of selling assets quickly or obtaining cash without accepting a substantial loss in value.

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Words that belong together

• asset illiquidity
• market illiquidity

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The property’s illiquidity mattered when the estate needed cash within weeks.

The analysis separated losses from falling prices from the effects of market illiquidity.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: financial analysis, risk evaluation, comparison, explanation. Disciplines: economics, finance, business. Commonness: uncommon.