divestiture
pronunciation
How to pronounce divestiture in British English:
UK [daɪ'vestɪtʃə]
How to pronounce divestiture in American English:
US [dɪˈvɛstɪtʃɚ, -ˌtʃʊr, daɪ-]
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- Noun:
- 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 sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division
Word Origin
- divestiture (n.)
- c. 1600, from divest on analogy of investiture. Economics sense is from 1961.
Example
- 1. This article focuses on the divestiture condition of resource allocation divisions in enterprises .
- 2. Extremely dissolute miss guest room inner divestiture auto heterodyne .
- 3. It appears this divestiture has been defeated .
- 4. Neither a divestiture of the new york stock exchange nor the potential entry of new competitors to the business could sway antitrust regulators from viewing the proposed deal as a ' two-to-one monopoly transaction , ' ms. varney said .
- 5. Without the consent of the ministry of commerce , the monitoring trustee may not disclose to the divestiture obligor the various reports it submits to the ministry of commerce in the course of performing its duties .