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Meaning of Divestiture | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
dɪˈvɛstɪt͡ʃɚ

Definitions

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

Equivalents

العربية التجريد
Deutsch Desinvestition
Bahasa Indonesia divestasi
日本語 剥奪

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.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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