divestment.

The sale or disposal of assets or investments, often to withdraw from a business or activity.

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Words that belong together

• asset divestment
• fossil-fuel divestment

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The trustees approved divestment from the portfolio’s coal holdings.

Divestment changed the fund’s ownership exposure but did not directly close the mines.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable. 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: financial analysis, risk evaluation, comparison, explanation. Disciplines: economics, finance, business. Commonness: uncommon.