Meaning of Divestiture | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of selling something off, especially an investment or a business.
   countable, uncountable
2. The process of stripping away an individual's confidence, values and attitudes in order to indoctrinate the individual into an organization.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Organic sales, which exclude⟳ the impact of acquisitions, divestitures and foreign exchange⟳, are now expected to rise⟳ 2 per cent to 5 per cent[…].”

“And finally, the transnational discourses of antiapartheidism and divestiture had led the U.K. television industry to ban sales of current programs to South Africa, again shaping the ways Bop-TV could enact its particular form⟳ of antigovernment, antiapartheid cultural politics.”

“Divestiture socialisation tries to strip⟳ away certain characteristics of the recruit.”

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