MEANING
The sale or transfer of an asset, business unit, or ownership interest.
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Words that belong together
- asset divestiture
- forced divestiture
On the page
The regulator required divestiture of the overlapping business unit.
Word forms
- Base
- divestiture
Usage notes
Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Singular divestiture; plural divestitures. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation, social science. Commonness: uncommon.
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