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Motors Liquidation Co – ‘10-Q’ for 12/31/18 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Wednesday, 2/13/19, at 4:02pm ET   ·   For:  12/31/18   ·   Accession #:  1193125-19-37912   ·   File #:  1-00043

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

 2/13/19  Motors Liquidation Co             10-Q       12/31/18   45:2.9M                                   Donnelley … Solutions/FA

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML    473K 
 2: EX-31       Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     22K 
 3: EX-32       Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     17K 
10: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     39K 
11: R2          Condensed Statements of Net Assets in Liquidation   HTML     54K 
                (Liquidation Basis)                                              
12: R3          Condensed Statements of Changes in Net Assets in    HTML     36K 
                Liquidation (Liquidation Basis)                                  
13: R4          Condensed Statements of Cash Flows (Liquidation     HTML     45K 
                Basis)                                                           
14: R5          Description of Trust and Reporting Policies         HTML     38K 
15: R6          Plan of Liquidation                                 HTML     58K 
16: R7          Net Assets in Liquidation                           HTML     58K 
17: R8          Liquidating Distributions                           HTML     30K 
18: R9          Fair Value Measurements                             HTML     53K 
19: R10         Reserves for Expected Costs of Liquidation and      HTML     79K 
                Residual Wind-Down Claims and Costs                              
20: R11         Income Taxes                                        HTML     38K 
21: R12         Related Party Transactions                          HTML     20K 
22: R13         Net Assets in Liquidation (Tables)                  HTML     37K 
23: R14         Liquidating Distributions (Tables)                  HTML     27K 
24: R15         Fair Value Measurements (Tables)                    HTML     44K 
25: R16         Reserves for Expected Costs of Liquidation and      HTML     73K 
                Residual Wind-Down Claims and Costs (Tables)                     
26: R17         Income Taxes (Tables)                               HTML     26K 
27: R18         Description of Trust and Reporting Policies -       HTML     33K 
                Additional Information (Detail)                                  
28: R19         Plan of Liquidation - Additional Information        HTML    102K 
                (Detail)                                                         
29: R20         Net Assets in Liquidation - Additional Information  HTML     55K 
                (Detail)                                                         
30: R21         Net Assets in Liquidation - Schedule of Cash and    HTML     30K 
                Cash Equivalent and Marketable Securities (Detail)               
31: R22         Net Assets in Liquidation - Allowed and Disputed    HTML     35K 
                General Unsecured Claims and Potential Term Loan                 
                Avoidance Action Claims (Detail)                                 
32: R23         Net Assets in Liquidation - Allowed and Disputed    HTML     20K 
                General Unsecured Claims and Potential Term Loan                 
                Avoidance Action Claims (Parenthetical) (Detail)                 
33: R24         Liquidating Distributions - Schedule of             HTML     25K 
                Liquidating Distributions (Detail)                               
34: R25         Liquidating Distributions - Additional Information  HTML     22K 
                (Detail)                                                         
35: R26         Fair Value Measurements - Additional Information    HTML     25K 
                (Detail)                                                         
36: R27         Fair Value Measurements - Assets and Liabilities    HTML     40K 
                Measured at Fair Value on Recurring Basis (Detail)               
37: R28         Reserves for Expected Costs of Liquidation and      HTML     57K 
                Residual Wind-Down Claims and Costs - Summary of                 
                Activity in Reserves for Expected Costs of                       
                Liquidation (Detail)                                             
38: R29         Reserves for Expected Costs of Liquidation and      HTML     31K 
                Residual Wind-Down Claims and Costs - Additional                 
                Information (Detail)                                             
39: R30         Reserves for Expected Costs of Liquidation and      HTML     24K 
                Residual Wind-Down Claims and Costs - Summary of                 
                Activity in Reserves for Residual Wind-Down Claims               
                and Costs (Detail)                                               
40: R31         Income Taxes - Additional Information (Detail)      HTML     59K 
41: R32         Income Taxes - Summary of Deferred Taxes (Detail)   HTML     41K 
42: R33         Related Party Transactions - Additional             HTML     22K 
                Information (Detail)                                             
44: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     80K 
43: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     48K 
 4: EX-101.INS  XBRL Instance -- mtlqq-20181231                      XML    839K 
 6: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- mtlqq-20181231_cal              XML     93K 
 7: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- mtlqq-20181231_def               XML    357K 
 8: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- mtlqq-20181231_lab                    XML    669K 
 9: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- mtlqq-20181231_pre             XML    441K 
 5: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- mtlqq-20181231                        XSD    138K 
45: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001193125-19-037912-xbrl      Zip     90K

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