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divestiture

divestiture

3 8.9
The sale of parts of a company, like a smaller company it owns
  • noun
  • /dɪˈvɛstɪtʃər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : desinversión
  • After months of negotiation, the firm announced its divestiture of a subsidiary in order to focus on its core business.
  • divestiture of PSCo
  • generic divestiture
  • 25% divestiture

Examples

  • Finally, the regime created a legal framework for divestiture by promulgating a law on the privatization of state enterprises.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Ladies and gentlemen, the bottom line is that this divestiture will result in every shareholder, all of you and myself included, getting a substantial premium for our shares.

    Mr. Deeds (2002)

  • In other words, the firm needs to create put options on the system prior to any divestiture activities.

    Academic text (1991)

  • And so it did bring to mind what I had said of a similar kind of effort to force divestiture of stocks some years ago.

  • The results suggest that state divestiture under military rule is dependent on three factors.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Prior to the divestiture, it would pay to plan the disassembling of the firm's system carefully.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Since the divestiture of 1956, the character of Chicopee village has changed.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Corporate divestiture from South Africa helped bring down the apartheid regime.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Note that the court prohibited the entire transaction rather than merely ordering the divestiture of the offending California assets.

    Academic text (1994)

  • The FCC, therefore, conditioned its approval of the transaction on the divestiture of the Internet assets to Cable and Wireless.

    Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

disposal
vsdivestiture
54 3.0

The act of getting rid of something you do not want

is about selling company parts like subsidiaries or divisions
disposition
vsdivestiture
18 6.7

To get rid of something by throwing it away or selling it

is about selling company parts rather than general ways of getting rid
divestment
vsdivestiture
  • Literature
3 6.0

Selling investments or parts of a company to stop owning them

is a sale specifically of business parts such as subsidiaries or divisions

Antonyms

acquisition
147 4.6

Getting something to own, often by buying, like a company or a painting

How Extensive

liquidation
  • Specialized
15 7.3
divestiture
  • Specialized
3 8.9
to sell off
57 3.5
spin-off
12 3.7
sale
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

divestiture singular
divestitures plural

Morphology

divestiture = divest (transparent) = divest + iture

Formed from the verb 'divest' plus the nominalizing suffix '-iture', meaning 'the act or result of divesting', which directly corresponds to the given definition.

Etymology

Divestiture comes from divest, which is built from Latin de- 'away' and vestire 'to clothe', so it evokes taking clothes away; think of removing a vest. A divestiture is like 'removing' parts of a company or selling off its assets, so the origin helps you remember it means getting rid of pieces of a business.