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divestiture
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English
Noun
divestiture (countable and uncountable, plural divestitures)
- The act of selling something off, especially an investment or a business.
- 2009 January 31, “Procter & Gamble forced to slice view”, in Toronto Star:
- Organic sales, which exclude the impact of acquisitions, divestitures and foreign exchange, are now expected to rise 2 per cent to 5 per cent […] .
- 2013 April 1, Timothy Havens, Black Television Travels: African American Media around the Globe (Book collections on Project MUSE), NYU Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 75:
- And finally, the transnational discourses of antiapartheidism and divestiture had led the U.K. television industry to ban sales of current programs to South Africa, again shaping the ways Bop-TV could enact its particular form of antigovernment, antiapartheid cultural politics.
- The process of stripping away an individual's confidence, values and attitudes in order to indoctrinate the individual into an organization.
Derived terms
- horizontal divestiture
- postdivestiture
Translations
act of divesting — see divestment
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