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View synonyms for divestiture
divestiture
[ dih-ves-ti-cher, -choor, dahy- ]
divestiture
- The act of a corporation or conglomerate in getting rid of a subsidiary company or division. In a tactic to pressure South Africa to end apartheid , during the 1980s many Americans and Europeans urged divestiture on corporations doing business in South Africa.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of divestiture1
First recorded in 1595–1605; di- 2 + (in)vestiture
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Example Sentences
All this, says the American former diplomat, amounts to a “day-by-day divestiture of government authority.”
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But I think American Jews on the whole are not pro-divestiture.
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He is more puzzled over this problem of divestiture than any other, and finds the solution of it only in "sexual selection."
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This divestiture of sensation proceeds to such an extent that there is nothing left beyond what M. Villey calls the pure form.
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