solvent

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1. solvent - Noun

2. solvent - Adjective

Meaning

Having the power of dissolving; dissolving; as, a solvent fluid.

Able or sufficient to pay all just debts; as, a solvent merchant; the estate is solvent.

A substance (usually liquid) suitable for, or employed in, solution, or in dissolving something; as, water is the appropriate solvent of most salts, alcohol of resins, ether of fats, and mercury or acids of metals, etc.

That which resolves; as, a solvent of mystery.

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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. John Maynard Keynes

Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels. Aldo Leopold

We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated. Norbert Wiener

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems. James Cash Penney

If rather than setting the minimum balance as the lowest possible amount, so we keep people in debt for as long as possible, we raise the minimum payment and encourage people to pay off their credit cards, we're going to make less money, but we're going to have costumers that are more solvent. Richard Thaler

Our staggeringly pompous president is incapable of comprehending that a businessman cannot pay a worker in excess of his productivity and hope to stay solvent. Ilana Mercer

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