Divestment

 [dih-ves-ti-cher, -choor, dahy-]  

di·vest·i·ture

   [dih-ves-ti-cher, -choor, dahy-]
noun
1.
the act of divesting.
2.
the state of being divested.
3.
something, as property or investments, that has been divested: to reexamine the company's acquisitions and divestitures.
4.
Also, di·ves·ture  [dih-ves-cher, -choor, dahy-] . the sale of business holdings or part of a company, especially under legal compulsion.
Also, di·vest·ment.

Origin:
1595–1605; di-2 + (in)vestiture
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divest (daɪˈvɛst)
 
—vb (usually foll by of)
1.  to strip (of clothes): to divest oneself of one's coat
2.  to deprive or dispossess
3.  property law to take away an estate or interest in property vested (in a person)
 
[C17: changed from earlier devest]
 
di'vestible
 
—adj
 
divestiture
 
—n
 
divesture
 
—n
 
di'vestment
 
—n

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