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divestment
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Wiktionary
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n. The sale or other disposal of some kind of asset.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Divestment \Di*vest"ment\, n. The act of divesting. [R.]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All six companies undertake financial analysis of those companies in which they have an interest for competitive, acquisition or divestment purposes. ▪ But the appropriate remedies might be divestment , regulation, or removal ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In finance and economics , divestment or divestiture is the reduction of some kind of asset for financial, ethical, or political objectives or sale of an existing business by a firm. A divestment is the opposite of an investment .
Usage examples of divestment.
On Hughes’ timecard: find out who’s hawking subpoenas for the TWA antitrust divestment case and bribe them into reporting that Big Howard blasted off for Mars.
I heard he’s pushed the TWA divestment price way up, so when he gets the gelt he can funnel it straight into some account he’s holding, like some kind of zillion-dollar ‘buy up Vegas’ fund.
Your specific duties will be to handle the writ work in my painfully protracted TWA divestment suit, and to help me purchase Las Vegas hotel-casinos with the profits I expect to accrue when I finally divest TWA.
He cut off the armour audio, letting the screen continue its mad flickerings, and initiated the divestment routine.
The first divestment ceremony -- televised live, and rebroadcast many times -- featured white-clad American and Soviet technicians wheeling in two of the dull gray metallic objects, each about as big as an ottoman and festooned variously with stars and stripes, hammers and sickles.
The continuing divestment of nuclear weapons by the five nuclear powers was something the venerables in orbit supported.
The first divestment ceremony--televised live, and rebroadcast many times--featured white clad American and Soviet technicians wheeling in two of the dull gray metallic objects, each about as big as an ottoman and festooned variously with stars and stripes, hammers and sickles.
Room-sized chambers that accommodated four people would be reduced to mere crevices at their farther end, requiring a painstaking divestment of all supply packs before the party could pass through.
Room-sized chambers that accommodated four people would be reduced to mere crevices at their farther end, requiring a painstaking divestment of all supply packs before the party could pass through.