divestiture – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
divestiture
n.
act of unclothing; deprivation of a right or privilege
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.
divestiture
Noun
1. an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior; "the court found divestiture to be necessary in preventing a monopoly"
(hypernym) court order
(derivation) deprive, strip, divest
(classification) law, jurisprudence
2. the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division
(hypernym) sale
(derivation) divest, disinvest
Divestiture
(n.)
The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
divestiture
The court-ordered separation of the Bell Operating Telephone Companies from AT&T.
