to disinvest from
- phrasal verb
- /ˌdɪsɪnˈvɛst frʌm/
- Specialized
:
desinvertir en
Examples
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And with this, government decides to disinvest from the area, closing up schools, right, shutting down social services.
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Indeed, I am not alone in disinvesting from such misguided evolutionary schema.
Academic text (1992) -
At least partly as a result of these campaigns, between 1 January 1984 and 14 April 1989, 155 United States companies and 122 companies based in other countries disinvested from South Africa.
Academic text (1992) -
The organization decided to disinvest from fossil fuel companies to promote sustainability.
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Due to ethical concerns, many investors chose to disinvest from firms associated with child labor.
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The government plans to disinvest from industries that are harmful to the environment.
Synonyms
159
3.5
To take money or things out of a place where they are kept
10
7.5
Sell off an asset or part of a business
1
8.0
To sell shares or assets to reduce putting money into something
Antonyms
436
3.6
To put money, time, or effort into something to get money and other benefits later
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'disinvest' already encodes the action of removing or selling an investment, and the preposition 'from' clearly marks the source/target of that withdrawal. The combined meaning 'withdraw financial investment from X' is directly compositional and parallels common verbs like 'divest from' or 'withdraw from', so a learner who knows the constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Disinvest from comes from the idea of taking money out of something you once put money into, like planting a seed with your money and then pulling the plant out of the soil. So, to disinvest from a company means to 'remove your money' or 'stop supporting' it, often for money or moral reasons.