Solvent
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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Solvent Quotations
I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.
James Cash Penney
In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.
John Doolittle
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
Garet Garrett
It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.
John George Nicolay
Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it.
Robert McCloskey
My major task was to keep us solvent.
Cheryl Crawford
Solvent Translations
solvent in French is solvable, solvant
solvent in Italian is solvente
solvent in Spanish is solvente
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