Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Withdrawal of capital investment from a company or country.
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- noun the process of
disinvesting ; negative investment.
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- noun the withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation
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Examples
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So basically, no investment, salary cuts, lack of upgrades will reduce costs for about 4 years and we will get decent service, but once the disinvestment is complete, things will go south quickly.
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There is also the question of how labor addresses longterm disinvestment and deindustrialization.
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Some $30 billion worth of pension funds investment are up for imminent withdrawal, and more and more corporate disinvestment is becoming real disengagement from the South African economy.
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Nor do they pay the cost in the short run for long-term disinvestment and running up financial debts.
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Infonetics Research: 2009 marks first year in short disinvestment cycle for telecom carriers
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Even as the government is open to the idea of disinvestment, voices of dissent are already being heard.
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And with regard to Iran, what John McCain did was to give a speech which laid out a series of more robust actions that we could take -- for example, sanctioning the refined gasoline, putting an embargo on refined gasoline that goes into Iran; strengthening our economic sanctions; dealing with investments, called disinvestment, from companies that do business with Iran; and a series of other, more robust sanctions than the administration has been willing to push thus far.
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It would also be the first major step in four years for what India calls a "disinvestment" program, in which the government sells shares in state-owned companies.
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"There has been a significant amount of 'disinvestment' or closing down facilities in some of the high-cost regions."
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"There has been a significant amount of 'disinvestment' or closing down facilities in some of the high-cost regions."
bilby commented on the word disinvestment
"But in recent years, federal disinvestment in water services has sparked a new era of privatization with contemporary players repeating promises made by nineteenth century entrepreneurs."
- Snitow and Kaufman, 'Drinking at the Public Fountain', 25 Sep 2008.
September 26, 2008