liquidation vs ending

liquidation and ending both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
liquidation	Yes	No	No	No
ending	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ending is a hypernym of liquidation; that is, ending is a word with a broader meaning than liquidation:

liquidation: termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
ending: the act of ending something

Other hypernyms of liquidation include conclusion, termination.

liquidation (noun)	ending (noun)
termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities	the act of ending something
the act of exterminating	the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
the murder of a competitor	the last section of a communication
	event whose occurrence ends something
	the point in time at which something ends