What does divestment mean?
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di·vest·ment
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divestmentnoun
The sale or other disposal of some kind of asset.
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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 is an adaptive change and adjustment of a company's ownership and business portfolio made to confront with internal and external changes.
Webster Dictionary
Divestmentnoun
the act of divesting
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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.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of divestment in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of divestment in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of divestment in a Sentence
I came to observe that there are activists who have a visceral hatred for Israel as though it were the root of all evil, the act of singling out Israel as BDS [the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement] has done is the definition of discrimination.
If these numbers tell us anything, it's that the divestment movement is catching fire.
The Pope's intent was to say to people: there is an urgency on this issue, divestment is a good way to raise the urgency. But it is not the be-all to end-all of solutions.
There's a head of steam building up for the divestment of the consumer business, it now has the mass and the reach to be a standalone group, and there are next to no synergies with the rest of the pharmaceutical business.
We have a big problem with pension funds saying we believe in engagement, not divestment, but there’s no sign of this engagement, the very act of owning them (oil sands companies) implies the funds do not support transition.
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