Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of divesting. Coleridge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of divesting.
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- noun The sale or other disposal of some kind of
asset .
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Examples
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After a string of acquisitions, for example, U.K. behemoth Vodafone Group now is in divestment mode.
HEARD ON THE STREET: VimpelCom Bets Bigger Is Still Better Hester Plumridge 2010
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The solution is complete boycott, sanction and divestment from the state of Israel.
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JPMorgan, in an analyst note, said the long-speculated divestment is positive for Renault as the gain in terms of cash from reduced interest payments on its debt should more than compensate for the fall in dividends that it will receive from Volvo.
Renault Sells Stake in Volvo for David Pearson 2010
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The literary ethos in this quasi-spatial sense, as marking out its own accustomed place of imaginative outlay and divestment, is perhaps the complement — but certainly the opposite — of anything taken up from the sociological work of Michel de Certeau and advanced as the route to critique and reappropriation within cultural studies.
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Yet many maintain that Article VI does not, in fact, commit nuclear-weapons states to a long-term divestment of those weapons.
Russ Wellen: Are Nonproliferation and Disarmament, Once Joined at the Hip, Headed for Divorce? Russ Wellen 2010
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Yet many maintain that Article VI does not, in fact, commit nuclear-weapons states to a long-term divestment of those weapons.
Russ Wellen: Are Nonproliferation and Disarmament, Once Joined at the Hip, Headed for Divorce? Russ Wellen 2010
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Yet many maintain that Article VI does not, in fact, commit nuclear-weapons states to a long-term divestment of those weapons.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Russ Wellen 2010
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The IMF was so impoverished by Latin American divestment-which went from 80 percent of its loans to about one percent-that it's been reduced to selling off its gold reserves.
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The IMF was so impoverished by Latin American divestment-which went from 80 percent of its loans to about one percent-that it's been reduced to selling off its gold reserves.
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The IMF was so impoverished by Latin American divestment -- which went from 80% of its loans to about 1% -- that it’s been reduced to selling off its gold reserves.
Rebecca Solnit: Remembering People Power In Seattle In 1999 And Berlin In 1989 2009
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