divestment - meaning and definition. What is divestment
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What (who) is divestment - definition

REDUCTION OF SOME KIND OF ASSET FOR FINANCIAL, ETHICAL, OR POLITICAL OBJECTIVES OR SALE OF AN EXISTING BUSINESS BY A FIRM
Divestiture; Divest; Divested; Divestitures; Divesting; Disinvest; Divests; Divestments; Factory farming divestment

Divestment         
·noun The act of Divesting.
divestment         
¦ noun the action or process of selling off subsidiary business interests or investments.
divestment         
n. the act of stripping one's investment from an entity.

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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.

Pronunciation examples for divestment
1. about divestment.
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2. through, divestment from fossil fuels.
Age of Discovery _ Professor Ian Goldin _ Talks at Google
3. that the divestment campaigns weren't
Racing Extinction _ Louie Psihoyos _ Talks at Google
4. Instead of talking about divestment,
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5. A divestment in schools, discriminatory housing practices,
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Examples of use of divestment
1. In addition to Harvard‘s and Stanford‘s divestment decisions, a Dartmouth College advisory committee voted late last month to recommend divestment.
2. Khartoum contends that divestment will hurt the people of Sudan.
3. Nine other states have divestment legislation in the works.
4. "This is not an immediate divestment, nor a blanket divestment against Israel as a whole – I hope that gets heard," says the Rev.
5. Jewish organizations, fiercely battling to block an anti–Israel divestment push on college campuses, have not joined the anti–Sudan divestment campaign.