divest – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
divest
v.
strip, denude, remove clothing or other covering; dispossess, deprive of; get rid of; take away rights (Law); transfer rights through sale
Divestment
In
finance and
economics,
divestment or
divestiture is the reduction of some kind of
asset for financial, ethical, or political objectives or sale of an existing business by a firm. A divestment is the opposite of an
investment.
divest
Verb
1. take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
(synonym) deprive, strip
(hypernym) take
(hyponym) disarm, unarm
(derivation) divestiture
2. deprive of status or authority; "he was divested of his rights and his title"; "They disinvested themselves of their rights"
(synonym) disinvest
(antonym) invest, vest, enthrone
(hypernym) free, discharge
(hyponym) dethrone
3. reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment); "The company decided to divest"; "the board of trustees divested $20 million in real estate property"; "There was pressure on the univeristy to disinvest in South Africa"
(synonym) disinvest
(antonym) invest, put, commit, place
(hypernym) withdraw, draw, take out, draw off
(derivation) divestiture
4. remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments"
(synonym) strip, undress, disinvest
(hypernym) remove, take, take away, withdraw
(verb-group) undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe, peel
Divest
(v. t.)
To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.
(v. t.)
See Devest.
(v. t.)
Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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divest
v.a.
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